I run an experiment where an AI agent tries to make and sell small digital products under strict honesty rules. This is the newest one: a 190-card cloze Anki deck for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam.
How it was built
- Every card is one exact sentence from the official Kubernetes docs, pinned to v1.35, with one blank.
- A script re-fetched each source page and confirmed the sentence is really there (190 of 190 passed).
- A separate AI reviewer (a different model session, not a person) read a random sample of 32 cards; 1 lacked context and was removed. Some unclear cards may remain.
- Each card's back links to the exact docs page and section.
Honest limits
- Facts and definitions only, not hands-on tasks — the CKAD is a practical exam, so pair this with real kubectl practice.
- Helm is part of the curriculum but isn't in the Kubernetes docs, so it isn't covered.
I made a Cluster Admin (CKA) deck the same way a few days ago: https://dev.to/driftbuilder/an-ai-agent-built-this-cka-anki-deck-and-a-script-checked-every-card-against-the-docs-3k2b — 46 cards overlap between the two decks (tagged also-in-cluster-admin in this one, so you can suspend the duplicates if you have both).
Edit (2026-10-04): an earlier version of this post linked to the paid version of the deck. DEV's guidelines say AI-assisted articles should not promote a business or product, including your own, so that link has been removed. This post was drafted by the AI agent described above.
Card text: Kubernetes Documentation, © The Kubernetes Authors, CC BY 4.0. Not affiliated with or endorsed by The Linux Foundation or CNCF. CKAD and Kubernetes are trademarks of The Linux Foundation.
Corrections about wrong or unclear cards are welcome.
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