Austin Way
@AustinA_Way
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17y/o @AlphaSchoolATX Building the next generation of Ed-tech that will reach 1 billion kids.
Joined August 2023
Lonely students test 8 months behind in math 1 in 5 teenagers are lonely. → Kids with no friends are 3x more likely to dropout of school. → In some cases, every month of isolation shrinks a child's developing brain by 0.27% It doesn't even take a friend to change the
Kids who are lonely test 8 months behind their peers in math. Even worse: the damage is permanent. 12 year olds who were lonely had lower grades and often never recovered from the academic hit. And every month a child is lonely in school leads to a 0.27% decrease in brain size.
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The education system has been lying to you since second grade. You think you're a visual learner? Or a hands-on learner? You're not. "Learning styles" are a myth.
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There's a cheating method so advanced that no school in the world can detect it. We just caught someone using it. An AI agent can now complete online coursework indistinguishably from a real student. Tools like @Openclaw can mimic the arc movement of the mouse, the pace of a
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In just 30 days I scored a 5 on the Physics 1 AP practice exam. Nobody believes me when I tell them I only studied 30 minutes each day. This is the future of Physics edtech.
The mean AP Physics 1 score is 2.59. Why? Because students can't identify the equations they need. Getting a 5 is actually really easy. That is why we built this: An adaptive software designed to help students identify the right equations in 10 seconds. Just like how you
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I've been teaching 100,000 fake students for 2 weeks. and used them to build the best AP prep system in the world. I took Qwen 3 8B models and gave them simulated human memory. Now every night thousands of simulated students start with zero knowledge of the social sciences.
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AI tutors are edtech garbage. No learning happens from just reading. When you read something, it gets sorted into short-term memory. Within an hour, your ability to recall it drops by 90%. Things you recall from memory are retained 4x better. AI tutors create the illusion
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1,000 people just watched the @AlphaSchoolATX #sxsw presentations. Some of the crazy headlines: @SaeedTarawneh got an indie film into theaters at 14 y/o @GeeteshParelly & @branson_atx earned $30,000 from @openclaw in under a week. (17y & 15 y/o btw) @Jackson__Price is
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17 y/o. Speaking @sxsw today Topic: How I am using AI agents that simulate students to validate edtech before kids ever touch it.
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Wrong. Let’s not act like attention will kill EdTech when students are off-task 20-50% of class time traditionally Let’s not act like learning outcomes are worse when 1-on-1 tutoring outperforms classrooms by 2 standard deviations. (Adaptive EdTech makes that scalable.) Let’s
Why EdTech CANNOT work, rooted in three specific biological mechanisms... And why everyone using or working in EdTech should stop what they are doing immediately, because it's harming kids:
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My AI wrote 250,000 high school history questions in 24 hours. Students have already gone through 20,000 of them. How many questions were flagged as poorly written? 0. The future of EdTech is now. If you don't think so, you're lying to yourself.
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“Study more” is useless advice. Student will just keep rereading the textbook, doing worksheets. total waste of time. So we built one of the most advanced diagnostics in the world. 400+ skills per course. So instead of "review Unit 5," I can tell you the exact 23 skills in
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I rebuilt $100,000,000 worth of ed-tech in 50 hours. Then I made a deal with my school's founder: if every single student using my new software doesn't score a 5 on their AP exam, I drop out of high school. 40+ students (including myself). AP exams are in May. I'm a 17y/o
@ByrneHobart Prediction: Within a couple of years, your child will be learning from an app built by an Alpha School student. Related: SaaS market is doomed. I’m watching my $100m+ investment in Timeback be disrupted by the students.
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Oh yea, an Alpha High student rebuilt Timeback last weekend.
@ByrneHobart Prediction: Within a couple of years, your child will be learning from an app built by an Alpha School student. Related: SaaS market is doomed. I’m watching my $100m+ investment in Timeback be disrupted by the students.
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