alt Hacker NewsI’m exploring two different applications of AI for education and skill-building:
1. Open-Source AI Curriculum Generator(OSS MathAcademy alternative for other subjects) Think MathAcademy meets GitHub: an AI system that generates complete computer science curricula with prerequisites, interactive lessons, quizzes, and progression paths. The twist: everything is human-reviewed and open-sourced for community auditing. Starting with an undergrad CS foundation, then branching into specializations (web dev, mobile, backend, AI, systems programming).
The goal is serving self-learners who want structured, rigorous CS education outside traditional institutions. AI handles the heavy lifting of curriculum design and personalization, while human experts ensure quality and accuracy.
2. Computational Astrology as an AI Agent Testbed For learning production-grade AI agents, I’m building a system that handles Indian astrology calculations. Despite the domain’s questionable validity, it’s surprisingly well-suited for AI: complex rule systems, computational algorithms from classical texts, and intricate overlapping interpretations - perfect for testing RAG + MCP tool architectures.
It’s purely a technical exercise to understand agent orchestration, knowledge retrieval, and multi-step reasoning in a domain with well-defined (if arcane) computational rules.
- Has anyone tackled AI generated curricula? What are the gotchas? - Interest in either as open-source projects?
> everything is human-reviewed and open-sourced for community auditing
2 projects worth checking out here: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap (open-sourced roadmaps, no course content) and also https://github.com/ossu for more college curricula level (with references to outside courses).
I've been personally working on AI generated courses for a couple of months (probably will open source it in 1–3 months). I think the trickiest part that I haven't figured out yet is how to kind of build a map of someone's knowledge so I can branch out of it, things like "have a CS degree" or "worked as a Frontend Dev" is a good starting point, but how to go from there?
I really like how Squirrel AI (EdTech Company) breaks things down — they split subjects into thousands of tiny “knowledge points.” Each one is basically a simple yes/no check: Do I know this or not? The idea makes sense, but actually pulling it off is tough. Mapping out all those knowledge points is a huge task. I’m working on it now, but this part MUST be open source
btw, feel free to email me to bounce ideas or such (it's in my bio)