A developer has released Lathe, a Go CLI that uses LLMs to generate learning materials, not finished code.
Lathe takes a prompt like "/lathe build a 3D slicer in Erlang," routes it through an LLM agent (it supports Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex), and generates a structured tutorial with a table of contents, exercises, side-notes, and cited sources. The result is a local web app. The UI requires you to type every line of code yourself. No paste. A second LLM pass can verify that the tutorial's code actually compiles and runs, and you can extend any tutorial with additional parts, which the creator frames as a fix for the "Part 4 of 6, last updated 2021" problem that plagues online tutorial series.
Most AI developer tools compete on how fast they can produce working code. Lathe inverts that: the LLM generates the curriculum, you do the typing. The creator's stated goal is filling a real gap: technical niches obscure enough that no human has written a good guide for them yet, not displacing the human-written tutorials that already exist.
Whether an LLM-generated tutorial can actually teach you something without quietly slipping in a hallucinated detail is the obvious risk here. The built-in verification step is an honest acknowledgment of that problem. It is not a solution to it.