aime now teaches the way good teachers teach
Instead of handing students the answer, aime guides them through honest struggle — the kind of productive thinking that actually leads to learning. The AI in your classroom finally behaves like a teacher.
Every teacher knows the difference between a student who has been helped and a student who has been answered. The first walks away thinking. The second walks away with a finished worksheet and no idea how they got there. For a long time, AI tools have only known how to do the second thing. This update changes that.
We've added a pedagogy layer that changes how aime responds when a student asks for help. It scaffolds rather than solves. It asks 'what have you tried so far?' before it offers a hint. It breaks a hard question into smaller, more honest ones. It lets a student sit with a problem long enough to actually think — and then meets them where they are, with the next nudge, not the final answer.
For you, this is enormous. The AI in your classroom now behaves more like the experienced teacher you'd want crouched next to a struggling student: patient, calibrated, refusing to short-circuit the learning even when the student pushes for it.
You stay the expert in the room. You still set the standard, set the tone, and decide what counts as understood. aime simply stops undermining the work you do — and starts quietly reinforcing it.