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Most AI tools race to do the task for you. Lathe, a fresh Show HN project, is built on the opposite premise: use an LLM to actually teach you a technical topic, not skip past the learning.

## How it works

You name a domain you want to learn, and Lathe generates a hands-on, source-backed tutorial for it. The catch — by design — is that you do the work: you read it and type the code by hand in a local UI, rather than copy-pasting a finished answer. It’s an LLM pointed at comprehension instead of completion.

## Why it’s interesting

It’s a small reaction to a real worry: that offloading everything to agents leaves you unable to do the thing yourself. Source-backed matters too — tutorials grounded in references rather than confident hallucination. Whether “an AI that makes you slower on purpose” finds an audience in a market obsessed with speed is the open question, but the framing is a refreshing inversion of where most tools are pushing.