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April 30, 2026

Building an AI tutor that refuses to give you the answer

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Amara Chukwu

Backend Engineer

6 min read

The easiest AI tutor to build just answers the question. The useful one teaches you to find the answer yourself. Getting an LLM to consistently choose the second behavior over the first took real iteration.

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