> “It helps us get closer to our mission. To teach well, we need to create a massive amount of content, and doing that manually doesn’t scale. One of the best decisions we made recently was replacing a slow, manual content creation process with one powered by AI. Without AI, it would take us decades to scale our content to more learners. We owe it to our learners to get them this content ASAP.”

It’s hard to fathom why this would be the case. Isn’t creating learning materials mostly an upfront task? Obviously you want to update your materials and fix mistakes. And perhaps you sometimes have a new idea that necessitates an update or rewriting things. But creating lesson materials honestly seems like it would scale very well.

I think about reading language learning blogs and forums and people would sometimes recommend favorite resources that were from decades ago. I’m sure something was lost in them not being totally up to date but honestly, persistence is way more important than currency, let alone “having a massive amount of content.”