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      <title>Week 32: Learning From the Students Who Are Already Finding Their Way</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-32-learning-from-the-students-who-are-already-finding-their-way-1aga</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-32-learning-from-the-students-who-are-already-finding-their-way-1aga</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;One thing we are learning while building BAINT is that we cannot only look for students who are struggling&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We also need to learn from students who are already finding ways to understand difficult subjects&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That might actually teach us just as much&lt;br&gt;
Recently, we spoke with a Biochemistry student about how she experienced the course when she was in 100 level&lt;br&gt;
We asked a simple question&lt;br&gt;
What made Biochemistry easier for you to understand compared to other students?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Her answer gave us something important to think about&lt;br&gt;
She said one thing that helped her a lot was that she did not depend only on what the lecturers taught&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She made sure to research the topics herself to get more clarity&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That sounds simple&lt;br&gt;
But there is something deeper inside that answer&lt;br&gt;
The student was not waiting for one explanation to be enough&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When the lecture did not provide everything she needed, she looked for another way to understand the topic&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She researched&lt;br&gt;
She compared information&lt;br&gt;
She looked for more clarity&lt;br&gt;
She kept learning outside the classroom&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is a learning behaviour we want BAINT to understand better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students do not all learn from the same place&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some students depend heavily on classroom explanations&lt;br&gt;
Some use textbooks&lt;br&gt;
Some search online&lt;br&gt;
Some watch YouTube videos&lt;br&gt;
Some ask classmates&lt;br&gt;
Some use AI&lt;br&gt;
Some combine several of these approaches&lt;br&gt;
And some students develop their own learning methods over time&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The interesting question for us is not simply&lt;br&gt;
"What does a student find difficult?"&lt;br&gt;
We also want to ask&lt;br&gt;
"What does a student who understands well do differently?"&lt;br&gt;
That changes how we think about building BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If a student already knows how to research a difficult concept, BAINT should not simply give them another generic answer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It could help them organise what they find&lt;br&gt;
Break a difficult concept into smaller parts&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Compare different explanations&lt;br&gt;
Connect theory to practical examples&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Test their understanding&lt;br&gt;
Or help them identify what they still do not understand&lt;br&gt;
The goal is not to replace the student's own learning process&lt;br&gt;
It is to support it&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are also learning from how students ask questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This has become one of the biggest things we are testing in the BAINT demo&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A student might start with a broad question&lt;br&gt;
"Explain biomolecules"&lt;br&gt;
Then ask&lt;br&gt;
"What are their building blocks?"&lt;br&gt;
Then&lt;br&gt;
"What about proteins and enzymes?"&lt;br&gt;
Then&lt;br&gt;
"What about carbohydrates?"&lt;br&gt;
Those questions are not separate questions&lt;br&gt;
They are part of one learning process&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The student is moving from the general concept into specific parts and then deeper into the subject&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That means BAINT needs to understand the conversation&lt;br&gt;
It needs to know what the student is referring to&lt;br&gt;
It needs to avoid repeating an explanation that has already been given&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And it needs to understand when the student is asking for a deeper explanation, an example, an application or a completely different way of understanding the same concept&lt;br&gt;
We recently found this problem while testing the demo with students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At first, some follow-up questions returned almost the same answer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That was a problem&lt;br&gt;
A student should not have to keep changing the wording of a question just to make an AI understand that they are asking about a different part of the topic&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So we started working on that&lt;br&gt;
The demo is still early, but these tests are helping us understand what BAINT actually needs to become&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not only looking for problems&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is an important change in how we are doing our research&lt;br&gt;
We want to learn from students who are struggling&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But we also want to learn from students who are doing well&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What do they do when they do not understand something?&lt;br&gt;
Where do they search?&lt;br&gt;
How do they know when they finally understand?&lt;br&gt;
Do they learn differently from their classmates?&lt;br&gt;
What habits helped them become better?&lt;br&gt;
What did they wish they had known earlier?&lt;br&gt;
These questions can teach us how students develop their own ways of learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And that can help us build BAINT around real learning behaviour instead of assumptions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is still being built&lt;br&gt;
BAINT AI Classroom Assistant is still in the testing and development stage&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are talking to students&lt;br&gt;
Testing the demo&lt;br&gt;
Collecting feedback&lt;br&gt;
Studying how students learn&lt;br&gt;
And changing parts of the product when the feedback shows us that something is not working well enough&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not trying to pretend that everything works already&lt;br&gt;
There are still many things we need to figure out&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is part of building from the ground up&lt;br&gt;
The more students we talk to, the more we understand that the real challenge is not simply giving students access to information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is helping them find a way into that information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes that means a step-by-step explanation&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes it means a practical example&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes it means a visual explanation&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes it means connecting a new concept to something the student already understands&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes it means helping a student research better&lt;br&gt;
And sometimes it simply means listening to the question carefully before answering&lt;br&gt;
We are still looking for hardware support&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is also something practical that would help us move faster&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still looking for a better laptop or development device for BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Right now, a fairly used laptop would still make a meaningful difference&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are building, testing, researching and updating the demo regularly, and better hardware would help us work faster and test more comfortably&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not looking for anything fancy&lt;br&gt;
If someone has a fairly used laptop that they no longer need and would be willing to support BAINT with it, we would genuinely appreciate the help&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you know someone who may be able to help, connect us&lt;br&gt;
You can reach us at:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="mailto:baintcomputer@gmail.com"&gt;baintcomputer@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This is not separate from the work&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is part of the journey&lt;br&gt;
We are trying to keep building with what we have while also being honest about what would help us do better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What comes next&lt;br&gt;
We want to keep speaking with students from different backgrounds&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to understand both the students who struggle and the students who have developed strong ways of learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to keep testing how BAINT handles real conversations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to improve how it understands follow-up questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to explore different ways of explaining the same concept&lt;br&gt;
And most importantly, we want students to continue influencing what we build&lt;br&gt;
Because BAINT should not be built around what we think students need&lt;br&gt;
It should be built around what we learn from them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still early&lt;br&gt;
But every conversation gives us something new to think about&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still listening&lt;br&gt;
Still learning&lt;br&gt;
Still connecting&lt;br&gt;
Still building&lt;br&gt;
BAINT 🌱📚&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Lebel Bros&lt;br&gt;
Founder, BAINT Computer&lt;/p&gt;

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      <category>testing</category>
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      <title>Week 31: What Students Actually Need From BAINT and the Latest Update in Our Journey So Far</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-31-what-students-actually-need-from-baint-and-the-latest-update-in-our-journey-so-far-5emh</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-31-what-students-actually-need-from-baint-and-the-latest-update-in-our-journey-so-far-5emh</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Building has taught us something we did not fully understand when we started&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students do not always need more information&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes they need a different way to understand the same information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That difference has become more obvious as we have continued talking with students, testing ideas, and putting the BAINT demo in front of real people&lt;br&gt;
What students have been showing us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Through our conversations with students from different academic backgrounds, we keep seeing different kinds of learning difficulties&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some students struggle because explanations move too quickly&lt;br&gt;
Some understand the theory but struggle when they have to apply it practically&lt;br&gt;
Some need diagrams or visual explanations&lt;br&gt;
Some need a concept broken into smaller steps&lt;br&gt;
Some need context before the concept makes sense&lt;br&gt;
Others simply need the same idea explained in a completely different way&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This has changed how we think about BAINT&lt;br&gt;
The goal is not to make BAINT give longer answers&lt;br&gt;
The goal is to understand what kind of help the student actually needs&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A student struggling with a mathematical calculation may need a step by step solution&lt;br&gt;
An engineering student may need a practical example&lt;br&gt;
A student studying a biological structure may need a visual explanation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A history student may need the events connected through context and sequence&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The answer alone is not always the solution&lt;br&gt;
The way we reach the answer matters too&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The latest update in our journey&lt;br&gt;
BAINT is early,testing&lt;br&gt;
talking to students&lt;br&gt;
Also learning from people who use or see the demo&lt;br&gt;
And some of the things we have built are also being reconsidered&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are learning that building an AI learning assistant is not about adding as many features as possible&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes the right move is to remove something&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes the interface needs to become simpler&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes a feature sounds useful when building it, but becomes less important after listening to students&lt;br&gt;
That is part of where we are now&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are taking what students have told us and using it to decide what BAINT should keep, what should change, and what should come next&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not trying to pretend that everything has already been figured out&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are trying to keep learning until we get closer to something that genuinely helps&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are also looking for better hardware&lt;br&gt;
One practical challenge we continue to face is the device we use to build BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are building with limited resources, and having a better development device would help us move faster with testing, development and the next stages of the product&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So if anyone has a fairly used laptop or development device that they no longer need and would be willing to support the work with, we are open to hearing from you&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It does not have to be new&lt;br&gt;
What matters is having something reliable enough to help us build and test faster&lt;br&gt;
If you are someone who believes in what we are trying to build and would like to support BAINT in that way, you can reach us at&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:baintcomputer@gmail.com"&gt;baintcomputer@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What comes next&lt;br&gt;
For now, we are staying close to the students&lt;br&gt;
More conversations&lt;br&gt;
More testing&lt;br&gt;
More learning&lt;br&gt;
More improvements to the demo&lt;br&gt;
More connections with people building in education and technology&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And more work behind the scenes&lt;br&gt;
We are still figuring out exactly what BAINT should become&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But the direction is becoming clearer&lt;br&gt;
Students need different ways into the same concept&lt;br&gt;
And that is something we want BAINT to understand better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We started BAINT because we believe having information is not the same as understanding&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That belief has not changed&lt;br&gt;
If anything, the students we have spoken with have made it stronger&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still listening,learning,connecting&lt;br&gt;
And building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT 🌱📚&lt;br&gt;
Lebel Bros&lt;br&gt;
Founder, BAINT Computer&lt;/p&gt;

</description>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>productivity</category>
      <category>tutorial</category>
      <category>security</category>
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      <title>Week 30: Learning What Comes Next for BAINT</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-30-learning-what-comes-next-for-baint-29mf</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-30-learning-what-comes-next-for-baint-29mf</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;30 weeks&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It feels strange to write that&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When we started building BAINT, we thought a lot of the work would be about building the product&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Write code&lt;br&gt;
Test ideas&lt;br&gt;
Improve the interface&lt;br&gt;
Build something students could use&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But 30 weeks later, we are learning that building the product is only one part of the work&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A big part of the work is understanding what should come next&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have been quieter lately&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you have been following BAINT, you may have noticed that we have not been posting as much as before&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have not given up&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have not stopped building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have not lost interest in BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have simply been spending more time away from the timeline&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More conversations with students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More listening&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More research&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More thinking about what we have learned so far&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And more time trying to understand where BAINT should go next&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the most important work does not produce a post&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still talking to students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Student conversations remain one of the most important parts of our journey&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every conversation continues to show us something different&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some students need concepts broken down&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some need practical examples&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some struggle with memorization&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some struggle because the teaching method does not work for them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some understand the theory but struggle when they have to apply it&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some simply need another way to look at the same concept&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These conversations continue to shape how we think about learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The more we listen, the more we realise that the problem is bigger than simply giving students access to information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are also meeting other builders&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another thing we have started putting more energy into is networking&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are trying to meet other educational builders&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;People working on EdTech&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;People building AI products&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;People thinking about education from different angles&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;People who have already gone through some of the problems we are beginning to face&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We do not expect every conversation to lead to something immediately&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the value is simply learning how another person thinks&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes one conversation can change a direction&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it can show you that a problem you thought was unique is actually something many builders experience&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to keep having those conversations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are also looking for the right tools&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another part of our journey right now is hardware&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have been building and researching with the tools we currently have, but there are limits to what we can do without a proper laptop and better gadgets&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are currently reaching out and trying our best to find people or organisations who may be willing to support us with a laptop or useful gadgets that can help us build, test and improve BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not sitting around waiting for someone to save us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are asking&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are reaching out&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are exploring different opportunities&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And we are doing everything we can with what we have&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A better laptop would not simply be a comfort for us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It would be another building tool&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It would help us develop faster, test more properly and take BAINT further&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If someone is willing to support us with suitable hardware, we would genuinely appreciate it&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can reach us at&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:baintcomputer@gmail.com"&gt;baintcomputer@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still doing our best to build with what we have&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And we are still looking for ways to build better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What comes next for BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is the question we are spending more time thinking about&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What should BAINT become&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What should we improve&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What should we remove&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What do students actually need from us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What can we build that is genuinely useful&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And perhaps most importantly&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What have we learned that should change the way we build&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We do not want to build features simply because they sound good&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want the next stage of BAINT to come from what we have actually learned&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From testing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From conversations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From mistakes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From other builders&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From the work we have already done&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not rushing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is always pressure when you are building something&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You see other startups launching&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You see founders announcing users&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You see products raising money&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You see people moving quickly&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And sometimes you start wondering if you are moving too slowly&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But we are learning that moving quickly is not always the same thing as moving in the right direction&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We would rather understand the problem better than rush into building something students do not need&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We would rather have real conversations than pretend we already know everything&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We would rather keep learning than build around assumptions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;30 weeks later&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still early&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is still growing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still testing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still learning from students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still meeting people&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still trying to understand the education space&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And we are still figuring out what comes next&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is what Week 30 is really about&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not having all the answers&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But being willing to keep looking for them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Having information is not the same thing as understanding&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And maybe building BAINT is teaching us the same lesson&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Having an idea is not the same thing as knowing what to build&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You have to listen&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You have to test&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You have to learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Then you build again&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still here&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We may post less sometimes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We may disappear from the timeline for a while&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But that does not mean the work has stopped&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is still a lot ahead&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More students to talk to&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More builders to meet&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More things to test&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More lessons to learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More people to connect with&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And more work to do&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;30 weeks down&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still learning what comes next for BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still listening&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still connecting&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT 🌱📚&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Lebel Bros&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Founder, BAINT Computer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Together, BAINT is more&lt;/p&gt;

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      <category>ai</category>
      <category>discuss</category>
      <category>startup</category>
      <category>edutech</category>
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      <title>Week 29: Why We Keep Building BAINT</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-29-why-we-keep-building-baint-30gh</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-29-why-we-keep-building-baint-30gh</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a simple reason we keep building BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We keep meeting students who are trying to understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not just find an answer&lt;br&gt;
Not just copy a solution&lt;br&gt;
Not just get through an assignment&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They are trying to understand what they are learning and sometimes the problem is not that the information does not exist&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the information does not reach them in a way they can understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is where our journey with BAINT started&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Why are we building BAINT&lt;br&gt;
The idea behind BAINT did not come from believing that students have no access to information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students already have access to Google&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They have YouTube&lt;br&gt;
They have notes&lt;br&gt;
They have teachers&lt;br&gt;
They have friends&lt;br&gt;
And now they have many AI tools&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The problem we keep seeing is what happens after the information arrives&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A student can receive a correct answer and still be confused&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A student can read an explanation and still not understand the concept&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A student can know the formula and still struggle to know when and how to use it&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A student can understand one teacher and struggle with another teacher teaching the same subject&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These experiences keep pushing us to ask a different question&lt;br&gt;
What would an AI classroom assistant look like if its job was not simply to give students answers but to help them find a way to understand&lt;br&gt;
What is BAINT actually useful for&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT AI Classroom Assistant is being explored around that gap&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A student should be able to bring a difficult concept and get help working through it&lt;br&gt;
That help could mean breaking a concept into smaller parts&lt;br&gt;
It could mean explaining something step by step&lt;br&gt;
It could mean using a simpler explanation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It could mean approaching the same concept from another direction&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It could mean connecting theory with practical examples&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It could mean helping a student interpret what they are seeing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The important part is not simply generating more information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The important part is helping the learner move from information toward understanding&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But there are already learning AI tools&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Yes&lt;br&gt;
There are already AI tools designed to help people learn&lt;br&gt;
We do not want to pretend otherwise&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is not being built because nobody has thought about AI and education before&lt;br&gt;
We are building because our conversations with students keep showing us questions that we believe are worth exploring&lt;br&gt;
Why does one explanation work for one student but fail for another&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Why does changing the teaching method sometimes completely change a student's experience&lt;br&gt;
Why do some students need practical demonstrations instead of more theory&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Why do some students need a concept broken down before they can even begin solving the problem&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These are the things we keep listening for&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is our attempt to explore what an AI classroom assistant can do around those problems&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Two more student conversations&lt;br&gt;
This week gave us two more conversations to learn from&lt;br&gt;
One student told us about&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mathematics and how a change in teaching approach completely changed their experience with the subject&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A replacement teacher came in for only a short period and the student found Mathematics easier to understand because of the way the teacher explained and engaged with the class&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That conversation reminded us that sometimes students are not simply struggling with the subject&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They may be struggling with the way the subject is being taught&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another student studying Engineering Mathematics IV and MATLAB pointed us toward a different problem&lt;br&gt;
The theory was being taught but the practical side was missing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The student was not saying that solving the work itself was impossible&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The bigger problem was not seeing enough practical demonstrations&lt;br&gt;
Two students&lt;br&gt;
Two different situations&lt;br&gt;
But both conversations point toward the same bigger question&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Understanding is affected by how knowledge is presented and how learners interact with it&lt;br&gt;
Why we keep talking to students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is why we have continued the conversations&lt;br&gt;
Every conversation gives us another piece of the problem&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a student confirms something we already suspected&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes they completely change the way we think about something&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And sometimes they show us that the problem we thought we were solving is not actually the problem&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We would rather discover that now than build something for months based on an assumption&lt;br&gt;
We are still building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is also something practical we need to be honest about&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Building BAINT seriously requires better tools&lt;br&gt;
The phone has helped us come this far&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have researched with it&lt;br&gt;
Written with it&lt;br&gt;
Talked to students with it&lt;br&gt;
Shared our work with it&lt;br&gt;
Tested ideas with it&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But there is a point where the limitations become real&lt;br&gt;
We need a proper laptop or suitable gadget to build and test BAINT more seriously&lt;br&gt;
This is not about getting a gadget simply because it would be nice to have&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is a building tool&lt;br&gt;
Better hardware would make it easier to work with the code&lt;br&gt;
Test the product&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Investigate problems&lt;br&gt;
Make changes&lt;br&gt;
Run experiments&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And continue turning what we are learning from students into something useful&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still looking for support with the hardware needed to keep building&lt;br&gt;
Email&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:baintcomputer@gmail.com"&gt;baintcomputer@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Three students are already asking&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Something else happened while we continued this journey&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Three students have already asked about getting a free trial when BAINT AI Classroom Assistant becomes live&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not treating that as proof that everything is solved&lt;br&gt;
It is not&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is still being built&lt;br&gt;
But it matters&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because these conversations are beginning to move beyond people simply telling us about their problems&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some students are now asking when they can actually use what we are building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That gives us another reason to keep listening&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Why we keep writing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have now reached Week 29&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We keep writing because building is not only about writing code&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is also about documenting what we are learning&lt;br&gt;
The student conversations&lt;br&gt;
The problems&lt;br&gt;
The mistakes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The things that change our thinking&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The questions we still cannot answer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want these weeks to show the process behind BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not a perfect startup story&lt;br&gt;
Just the real process of trying to understand a problem deeply enough to build something useful&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still listening&lt;br&gt;
We are still researching&lt;br&gt;
We are still talking to students&lt;br&gt;
We are still learning&lt;br&gt;
We are still testing&lt;br&gt;
We are still building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The reason has not changed&lt;br&gt;
Having information is not the same thing as understanding&lt;br&gt;
And that is why we keep building BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT 🌱📚&lt;br&gt;
Lebel Bros&lt;br&gt;
Founder, BAINT AI Classroom Assistant&lt;br&gt;
Together, BAINT is more&lt;/p&gt;

</description>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <category>development</category>
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      <title>Week 28 – Understanding Is Not Always About Explaining More</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-28-understanding-is-not-always-about-explaining-more-4pb3</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-28-understanding-is-not-always-about-explaining-more-4pb3</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Every week we continue having conversations with students about their learning experiences&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Different departments&lt;br&gt;
Different courses&lt;br&gt;
Different challenges&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But sometimes completely &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;different students can reveal something connected&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This week two conversations made us think differently about understanding&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One student was studying Surveying and Geoinformatics&lt;br&gt;
Another was studying Industrial Design with Mechanical Engineering as part of the program&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Their challenges were completely different&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But their experiences pointed towards something important&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes the problem starts with the foundation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Surveying and Geo informatics student told us that Adjustment Computation was difficult because of the calculations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Remote Sensing brought another challenge because it involved software and technical tools&lt;br&gt;
When asked what helps them understand better the answer was simple&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Understanding the basics first&lt;br&gt;
And having someone explain it clearly&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That made us think&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes students are introduced to more complex topics while still struggling with the foundation beneath them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The next explanation might be correct&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The lecturer might explain everything properly&lt;br&gt;
The textbook might contain all the information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But if the student is missing something from the beginning adding more information might not solve the problem&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes understanding needs to start earlier&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes students need to go back&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes students need to see what they are trying to understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another student studying Industrial Design told us that 3D Modeling was one of the most difficult things to understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We asked what frustrated her the most&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Her answer was clear&lt;br&gt;
Visualizing the object&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She explained that what would help her understand better was seeing a step by step &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;demonstration and having the object explained from different angles&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This was interesting&lt;br&gt;
The challenge was not simply learning the software&lt;br&gt;
It was not simply following instructions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The student needed help seeing what she was expected to create&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is different from just giving more explanations&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes the learner needs another perspective&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they need to see the process&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they need to move through it step by step&lt;br&gt;
More explanation is not always the answer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These were two completely different learning experiences&lt;br&gt;
One student needed a stronger foundation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another needed a better way to visualize&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But both experiences made us think about the same thing&lt;br&gt;
Understanding is not always about explaining more&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes students already have information in front of them&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes they have lecture notes&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes they have videos&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes they have textbooks&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But something is still missing&lt;br&gt;
The starting point might be too advanced&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The explanation might skip important steps&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The student might be unable to visualize what is being discussed&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The information might be correct but the way it is presented may not connect with how the student understands&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is why we keep listening&lt;br&gt;
We are slowly learning that &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;helping someone understand is not always about making the explanation longer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it is about knowing where the explanation should begin&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it is about showing instead of only telling&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes it is about slowing down&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What BAINT is learning&lt;br&gt;
BAINT is still early&lt;br&gt;
We are still researching&lt;br&gt;
We are still talking directly with students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And every conversation continues to teach us something&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We do not want to assume that every student struggles in the same way&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to keep listening&lt;br&gt;
Because better learning might begin with a simple question&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What exactly is stopping this student from understanding&lt;br&gt;
The answer may be different for everyone&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And that is something worth paying attention to&lt;br&gt;
Latest BAINT Update&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;20+ people have now joined the BAINT waitlist&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Our demo is currently under maintenance and we are working towards getting it back online&lt;br&gt;
BAINT Insight Cards have now reached 020/1000&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are continuing our mission of showing people our demo for testing while speaking directly with students about their real learning experiences&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every conversation is helping us understand more about how students learn and what makes learning difficult for them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still early&lt;br&gt;
Still listening&lt;br&gt;
Still building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A Small Request for Help&lt;br&gt;
We are currently building BAINT independently while continuing our research with students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Access to better gadgets especially a laptop would help us move faster and continue building from the insights we are gathering&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If anyone is able to support us with gadgets that could help us continue building BAINT please reach out to us&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="mailto:baintcomputer@gmail.com"&gt;baintcomputer@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Every bit of support can help move this work forward&lt;br&gt;
The journey continues&lt;br&gt;
We do not have all the answers yet&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is why we keep asking&lt;br&gt;
We keep listening&lt;br&gt;
We keep documenting&lt;br&gt;
And we keep building&lt;br&gt;
One student conversation at a time&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One insight at a time&lt;br&gt;
One step at a time&lt;br&gt;
Real Students&lt;br&gt;
Real Insights&lt;br&gt;
Better Learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🌱📚&lt;br&gt;
Lebel Bros&lt;br&gt;
Founder, BAINT AI Classroom&lt;/p&gt;

</description>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>productivity</category>
      <category>beginners</category>
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      <title>Week 27: Students Are Creating Their Own Ways to Understand</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-27-students-are-creating-their-own-ways-to-understand-2gm7</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-27-students-are-creating-their-own-ways-to-understand-2gm7</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Every week we speak to students, we discover something new&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not because students are all struggling with the same thing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But because every student seems to be finding their own way through learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some learn through images&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some need to keep asking questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some research from different sources&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some need practical experience&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some take difficult lecture materials and break them down into something they can personally understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This week reminded us of something important&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students are not always waiting for the perfect way to learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Many of them are already creating their own ways to understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One student needed more than attending classes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One of the students we spoke with told us that attending lectures and tutorials alone was not enough&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At first, they believed going to classes regularly was all they needed&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But eventually they realized that simply being present in class did not automatically mean understanding&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They explained that images and physical illustrations helped concepts stay in their mind&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After lectures, they created their own personal study time&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They used their learning materials to generate questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And whenever something was unclear, they kept asking until they understood it better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They had discovered something important about themselves&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Understanding did not happen in one place&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It happened through different parts of their learning process coming together&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The lecture&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The images&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Personal study&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And repetition&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another student created a system around difficult topics&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another student told us about struggling with calculus&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The difficulty was not just one part of the subject&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The calculations were difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The concepts were difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The explanations were difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Everything felt difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They tried using videos to understand but explained that university topics sometimes required something more specific than what they could easily find&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So they created their own process&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They would take their lecturer's slides and ask an AI tool to explain the material little by little in simpler language&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Then they would look at the original lecture material while following the explanation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After understanding both, they would write what they learned in their own words&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That process stood out to us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They were not simply looking for an answer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They were creating a bridge between the material they were given and the way they personally understood things&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students are already adapting&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is something we are starting to notice through these conversations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students are constantly adapting&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When one explanation does not work, they search somewhere else&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When a video is not enough, they ask questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When a concept feels too complicated, they try to break it down&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When lectures are not enough, they create personal study systems&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When they need to remember something, they use practicals, repetition, questions and different forms of research&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students are already doing a lot of work to make education work for them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And maybe that is something we need to pay more attention to&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The problem is not always a lack of information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students have access to more information than ever before&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Lecture slides&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;PDFs&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Videos&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Websites&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Social media&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;AI tools&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Past questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Friends&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Lecturers&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The problem is not always finding information&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the difficult part is turning all that information into understanding&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One student may need an image&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another may need a practical example&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another may need to hear the explanation in simpler words&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another may need to ask the same question multiple times without feeling judged&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another may need to connect different explanations before the concept finally makes sense&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The information can be available&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But understanding can still be missing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is changing how we think about BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are building BAINT AI Classroom around one simple belief&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Helping students understand should not mean giving every student the exact same explanation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The more students we speak with, the more obvious this becomes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students think differently&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They study differently&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They struggle differently&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And they create different systems to help themselves learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We do not want to build something that simply gives answers&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to continue exploring how an AI classroom assistant can help students find an explanation that makes sense to them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes that might mean breaking something down step by step&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it might mean explaining from another angle&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it might mean using images&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it might mean asking questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it might simply mean staying with the student until the concept becomes clearer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still learning what that should look like&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And that is why these conversations matter&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We still need more students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still looking for students who are willing to share their learning experiences with us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not because we are trying to collect perfect answers&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But because every honest experience helps us see another part of the problem&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to hear from students who struggle&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students who learn easily&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students who depend on practicals&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students who prefer self study&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students who use different tools&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students who have created their own learning methods&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every perspective matters&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because we cannot build for students while assuming we already understand them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We also still need help&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is still being built with very limited resources&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have continued documenting the journey&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Talking to students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Collecting insights&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Building and showing our demo&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And learning directly from the people we hope to build for&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But we still need support to continue developing and testing what we are building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Better hardware and resources would help us continue improving the BAINT AI Classroom and expand our ability to test it with more students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not hiding the stage we are in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are early&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But we are here&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And we are not stopping&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The students are already teaching themselves&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Maybe one of the biggest things we are learning is this&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students are not passive&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They are constantly experimenting with ways to understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They combine lectures with videos&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Research with practicals&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Slides with questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;AI with their own notes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And explanations with repetition&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They are already creating their own learning systems&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Our job is not to ignore that&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Our job is to listen&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And hopefully build something that can support them better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is still early&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is still a lot we do not know&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But every conversation is helping us see a little further&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And for now&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We keep listening&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We keep documenting&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We keep building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The work continues&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Founder Lebel ₿ros 🌱📚🚶🏻‍♂️&lt;br&gt;
Building BAINT AI Classroom&lt;br&gt;
From real student experiences&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Week 26: The Students Are Teaching Us What to Build</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-26-the-students-are-teaching-us-what-to-build-28b2</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-26-the-students-are-teaching-us-what-to-build-28b2</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This week we did something more important than simply posting about BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We talked to students&lt;br&gt;
We listened to how they learn&lt;br&gt;
What makes studying difficult for them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What helps them understand&lt;br&gt;
What makes them lose interest&lt;br&gt;
And what they do when the normal way of learning does not work for them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The more students we talked to the more we realised something&lt;br&gt;
Students are not just the people we are building BAINT for&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They are also teaching us what BAINT should become&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every student had a different story&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We started with a simple question&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What is the most difficult subject or topic for you&lt;br&gt;
The answers were completely different&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One student told us Mathematics was difficult because of the teacher's teaching style&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Chemistry was different&lt;br&gt;
There was too much &lt;br&gt;
memorization calculations practicals different branches and the pressure of trying to remember everything while also understanding how to solve and derive things&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another student told us something even more interesting&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They had always believed Chemistry was hard&lt;br&gt;
Because of that mindset even when they tried to study they struggled to retain what they read&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That made us realise something&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes a student is not only fighting the subject&lt;br&gt;
They are also fighting the way they already feel about the subject&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not every student has a difficult subject&lt;br&gt;
One Software Engineering student told us they could not point to one particular course that was difficult&lt;br&gt;
For them it depended more on their willingness to learn and how relevant the subject was to what they actually wanted to study&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That was another important lesson&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students do not all experience difficulty in the same way&lt;br&gt;
One student may need a clearer explanation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another may need practical examples&lt;br&gt;
Another may need to understand why the topic matters&lt;br&gt;
Another may simply need better guidance&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the problem is not learning materials&lt;br&gt;
One Biochemistry student told us there were already plenty of learning materials&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;PDFs&lt;br&gt;
Lecture slides&lt;br&gt;
Notes&lt;br&gt;
Friends who could explain things&lt;br&gt;
The problem was consistency&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They often waited until a test or examination was close before studying&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They also explained how large classes and stressful classroom experiences sometimes made attending lectures difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But what stood out was that the student already understood their own weakness&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They wanted to start preparing earlier&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They wanted to revise topics after being taught&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They wanted guidance&lt;br&gt;
But they also understood that they had to guide themselves and build better habits&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students are already creating their own learning systems&lt;br&gt;
Another student showed us a completely different learning pattern&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They use different websites&lt;br&gt;
TikTok&lt;br&gt;
YouTube&lt;br&gt;
AI&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They search for different explanations because one explanation may not always be enough&lt;br&gt;
They also told us that practicals help because they learn better when they can see something and actually do something&lt;br&gt;
This raised another important question&lt;br&gt;
When students are using so many different sources how do they know what information to trust&lt;br&gt;
The student told us they compare different websites&lt;br&gt;
When something is completely new they search further or ask their lecturer&lt;br&gt;
Students are already doing their own research&lt;br&gt;
They are building their own learning systems&lt;br&gt;
But the information is everywhere&lt;br&gt;
The guidance is not always there&lt;br&gt;
This is what we keep seeing&lt;br&gt;
Students do not necessarily need more information&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes they need information to make sense&lt;br&gt;
They need to understand the connection between one idea and another&lt;br&gt;
They need to see the practical meaning&lt;br&gt;
They need another explanation when the first one does not work&lt;br&gt;
They need questions to practise&lt;br&gt;
They need guidance when they are stuck&lt;br&gt;
And sometimes they need to hear something explained in a completely different way&lt;br&gt;
This is where BAINT becomes more important to us&lt;br&gt;
We are not trying to build another AI system that simply gives students answers&lt;br&gt;
We are trying to understand what happens between asking a question and actually understanding something&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would this student understand better with a visual explanation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would another student need a practical example&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would someone else need the concept broken down step by step&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would another explanation make more sense&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Does the student need to understand the real life relevance&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Does the student need practice questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Does the student need guidance&lt;br&gt;
These are the questions we are trying to solve&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And we let students challenge the system&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is something we want to keep doing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After interviewing students we have also been showing some of them our BAINT AI Classroom demo&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We do not want them to simply tell us&lt;br&gt;
This is nice&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want them to challenge it&lt;br&gt;
Tell us what feels wrong&lt;br&gt;
Tell us what feels unnatural&lt;br&gt;
Tell us what is missing&lt;br&gt;
Tell us when the explanation is not good enough&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Tell us when BAINT does not understand what they are trying to learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because if students cannot challenge what we are building then we are still building from assumptions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The product is becoming a conversation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every student gives us another piece of the puzzle&lt;br&gt;
One student teaches us about memorization&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another teaches us about practical learning&lt;br&gt;
Another teaches us about relevance&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another teaches us about consistency&lt;br&gt;
Another teaches us about guidance&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another teaches us that having learning materials is not always the same thing as being able to learn effectively&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These conversations are changing how we think about the product&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Building beyond the demo&lt;br&gt;
There is another part of this journey we cannot ignore&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want BAINT AI Classroom to eventually exist beyond a screen and a prototype&lt;br&gt;
To properly test how students interact with the system especially with voice &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;different languages and real classroom situations we need the right hardware and resources to keep experimenting&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is why support matters&lt;br&gt;
Not because we want to skip the work&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But because the work is already happening&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every conversation with a student gives us something new to build&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The right hardware can help us take those ideas from a demo into something students can actually experience&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are looking for people builders organisations and supporters who believe in the idea enough to help us keep building and testing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The goal is to make the technology more accessible to the students we are learning from&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still early&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is still being tested&lt;br&gt;
The demo is still on&lt;br&gt;
The ideas are still evolving&lt;br&gt;
There are still many things we do not know&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And that is exactly why we keep talking to students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We do not want to pretend that we already have the perfect answer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to keep learning&lt;br&gt;
We want to keep testing&lt;br&gt;
We want to keep listening&lt;br&gt;
And we want students to have a voice in what we build&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The students are teaching us what to build&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is probably the biggest lesson from this week&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The future of BAINT should not come only from what we think students need&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It should also come from what students experience&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What they struggle with&lt;br&gt;
What they discover&lt;br&gt;
What they question&lt;br&gt;
What they ask us to change&lt;br&gt;
And what they tell us after &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;seeing or using the system&lt;br&gt;
So the work continues&lt;br&gt;
We will keep listening&lt;br&gt;
We will keep building&lt;br&gt;
And we will keep giving &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;students permission to challenge us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because the goal is not simply to build an AI that knows more&lt;br&gt;
The goal is to build an AI classroom that helps more students understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Real students&lt;br&gt;
conversations&lt;br&gt;
experiences&lt;br&gt;
insights&lt;br&gt;
Better learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The work continues&lt;br&gt;
Founder Lebel ₿ros 🌱📚🚶🏻‍♂️&lt;br&gt;
Building BAINT AI Classroom&lt;br&gt;
From real student experiences&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Week 25: What Students Tell Us That AI Cannot See</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-25-what-students-tell-us-that-ai-cannot-see-350m</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-25-what-students-tell-us-that-ai-cannot-see-350m</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We are building BAINT AI Classroom&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But lately, we have been spending less time asking what features we should add and more time asking students what is actually happening when they learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That change has taught us something important&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;AI already knows a lot&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But knowing a lot is not the same as knowing what a student is experiencing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A student can sit in a classroom and understand nothing even when the information is technically correct&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another student may understand a topic quickly but dislike the way it is being explained&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another may not want AI to explain everything for them at all&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These are things we started discovering through conversations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We started talking to students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have been speaking with students from different departments and asking simple questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Which course has been difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What makes it difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What helps them understand&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What would make learning easier&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The answers have been different&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some students talked about bulky materials&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some talked about fast explanations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some mentioned memorization&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Others talked about teaching styles, assessment methods and the difficulty of knowing what lecturers expect&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One Political Science student told us about POS 201&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The explanations moved quickly and there was a lot to memorize&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At one point, the course was moving on without them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They had to start again while the semester was already coming to an end&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They eventually got a B&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But getting a B did not mean the learning process was easy&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What they wanted most was something simple&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Simplified notes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Clear explanations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Step by step support&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They also made an interesting point about AI&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;AI can help, but it will not automatically explain a difficult course in the way a student needs if the student does not know how to prompt it properly&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That made us think&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Maybe the problem is not simply that students need more AI&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Maybe they need AI that understands more about how they are actually trying to learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every conversation changes something&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another student told us about a Parasitology course that felt bulky and difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The problem was not only the subject&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The teaching environment, the amount of material and the way the course was handled all played a role&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another student in Accounting talked about Econometrics and Costing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They explained that some topics became easier when they studied independently or watched videos, but the way assessments were marked created another problem&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These conversations are different&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But when we put them together, patterns begin to appear&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students are not all struggling for the same reason&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is important&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because if the problem is different for every student, then giving everyone the exact same explanation may not be enough&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is where BAINT becomes interesting&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not trying to build another AI that simply answers questions&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to understand the person asking the question&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What do they already know&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Where did they get stuck&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;How do they prefer information to be presented&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do they need a simpler explanation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do they need an example&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do they need a breakdown&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do they need to hear it differently&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Or do they simply need the right question asked back to them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We do not have all the answers yet&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is why we are still talking to students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;014 out of 1000&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We started documenting these conversations through the BAINT Student Insight Cards&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Each card represents a real student conversation and one of the things we learned from it&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have reached Insight Card 014&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Our goal is 1000&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That number is not about creating 1000 graphics&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is about reaching 1000 real student experiences and learning from them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are also beginning to document recurring patterns through BAINT Student Trends&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Insight Cards show individual experiences&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Student Trends show what begins to appear across many conversations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Together, they are helping us understand the problem before we try to solve it at scale&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The edge we have right now&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are many people building powerful AI systems&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We know that&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not pretending otherwise&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But our current edge is not having the biggest model or the most features&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Our edge is conversation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We can ask students directly&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We can listen&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We can document what they say&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Then we can take those lessons back into the product&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That process is slow&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But it gives us something we cannot get by sitting in a room and guessing what students need&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT started becoming clearer when we started listening&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And maybe that is the biggest lesson from this stage of the journey&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Before we build for students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We need to understand students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One conversation at a time&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still early&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is still in the demo phase&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still interviewing students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still improving the AI Classroom&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still collecting feedback&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are still trying to understand what works and what does not&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are many things we do not know yet&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But we believe there is value in continuing to listen&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because students are already telling us things&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We just have to pay attention&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is Week 25 of building BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The work continues&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Founder Lebel ₿ros 🌱📚🚶🏻‍♂️&lt;br&gt;
Building BAINT AI Classroom&lt;br&gt;
From real student experiences&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Week 24:- When Understanding Becomes More Than Memorizing</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-24-when-understanding-becomes-more-than-memorizing-1b5i</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-24-when-understanding-becomes-more-than-memorizing-1b5i</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Every week we speak with students from different departments to understand what makes learning difficult for them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This week we had conversations with two Science Laboratory Technology students and both conversations gave us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;something important to think about&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The first student mentioned Logic Gates, Calculus and Chemistry as some of the topics that can become difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What stood out was not only the difficulty of the subjects&lt;br&gt;
It was the amount of formulas&lt;br&gt;
She explained that different formulas can look very similar and that makes them difficult to remember&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Her way of dealing with it was mostly reading and cramming&lt;br&gt;
She would repeat the formulas and even talk about them with friends&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It helped her understand them to some extent&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But there was another problem&lt;br&gt;
After too much stress or after an examination, much of what she had memorized would disappear&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That conversation made us think about the difference between remembering something and actually understanding it&lt;br&gt;
The second Science Laboratory Technology student gave us another perspective&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She mentioned Chemistry and Physics as difficult areas and pointed mainly to the way they were taught&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When we asked what would make calculations easier to understand, her answer was simple&lt;br&gt;
Step by step explanations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She also told us that sometimes she relies on friends to explain things when she does not fully understand what was taught&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She understands some of it but still wants to understand more&lt;br&gt;
Two students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Similar fields&lt;br&gt;
Different experiences&lt;br&gt;
But both conversations pointed us toward the same bigger question&lt;br&gt;
Are students really struggling because the subjects are too difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Or are they struggling because the way the information is presented does not always match how they understand things&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is one of the reasons we continue talking to students before building the full BAINT product&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We do not want to assume what students need&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We want to hear it directly from them&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every conversation gives us another piece of the picture&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes the problem is too many formulas&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it is the teaching style&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes students need a concept broken down step by step&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they understand enough to pass but not enough to remember what they learned later&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For us, this is where the real work begins&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BAINT is still in the demo phase&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are showing it to students and teachers&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are collecting feedback&lt;br&gt;
We are interviewing students from different departments&lt;br&gt;
And we are using those conversations to decide what should improve next&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The goal is not to make students memorize more&lt;br&gt;
The goal is to help them understand better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because learning should not end when the examination ends&lt;br&gt;
We are still learning,building&lt;br&gt;
And listening&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Built from real student conversations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Never stop building BAINT 🌱📚&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Lebel Bros&lt;br&gt;
Founder | Building BAINT in Public&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Week 23:- Every Student Sees Learning Differently</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-23-every-student-sees-learning-differently-l64</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-23-every-student-sees-learning-differently-l64</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This week reminded us of something we keep discovering through every student conversation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;No two students learn in the same way&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A Business Administration graduate shared that the most difficult course throughout university was Research Methodology&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It was not because of one single topic&lt;br&gt;
The research concepts felt difficult&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Writing the project was challenging&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Data analysis was confusing&lt;br&gt;
Everything felt connected and difficult at the same time&lt;br&gt;
Then something changed&lt;br&gt;
After writing a real project the course finally started making sense&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That experience made us stop and think&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes students are not struggling because they cannot learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they simply need an opportunity to apply what they have learned&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Understanding often grows through experience&lt;br&gt;
Not just through reading&lt;br&gt;
Every interview reminds us that students have different learning journeys&lt;br&gt;
One student struggles with calculations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another struggles with coding&lt;br&gt;
Another struggles with remembering formulas&lt;br&gt;
Another only understands after doing the work themselves&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is no single learning path that works for everyone&lt;br&gt;
That is why BAINT continues to listen before building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every conversation helps us understand students a little better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every insight moves us one step closer to building an AI classroom that adapts to how different students actually learn&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thank you to every student who continues to share their &lt;br&gt;
learning experience with us&lt;br&gt;
Your voice is helping shape BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Built from real student conversations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Never stop building BAINT 🌱📚&lt;br&gt;
Lebel Bros&lt;br&gt;
Founder | Building BAINT in Public&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Week 22:- Every Student Conversation Is Becoming Part Of BAINT</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-22-every-student-conversation-is-becoming-part-of-baint-2614</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-22-every-student-conversation-is-becoming-part-of-baint-2614</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This week was not about adding another feature&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It was about understanding students a little better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Over the past few weeks we have continued interviewing students from different departments&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every conversation has revealed a different learning experience&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A Survey and Geoinformatics student told us that calculations become difficult when formula guidance is missing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A Computer Science student explained that writing large amounts of HTML for simple results makes learning feel overwhelming&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A Biochemistry student shared that advanced subjects become even harder because learning resources are limited while remembering concepts and equations becomes a challenge&lt;br&gt;
These conversations are&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;becoming more than interviews&lt;br&gt;
They are becoming part of BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every interview helps us understand how students experience learning in different departments&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every BAINT Insight Card preserves a real student voice&lt;br&gt;
Every weekly article documents another step in this journey&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not trying to guess &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;what students need&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are listening before we build&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That approach is slowly &lt;br&gt;
becoming one of the strongest parts of BAINT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Week after week we continue collecting experiences&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Week after week we continue learning&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Week after week BAINT grows through real conversations with real students&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thank you to every student who has taken the time to share their experience with us&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your voice is helping shape what BAINT becomes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;See you in Week 23 🌱📚&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Week 21:- Every Student Has Their Own Breaking Point</title>
      <dc:creator>Baint Computer 🌏🌱📚</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-21-every-student-has-their-own-breaking-point-okm</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/baint_computer_1b47584c10/week-21-every-student-has-their-own-breaking-point-okm</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This week reminded us why building BAINT is different&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are not trying to guess what students need&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are asking them directly&lt;br&gt;
One student from Survey and Geoinformatics told us that Adjustment Computation was the hardest course because of the calculations&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When we asked what would make learning better the answer was simple&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Formula provision&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A Computer Science student gave us a completely different perspective&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;HTML was not difficult because of the concepts&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It was difficult because writing one hundred lines of code just to display something small felt overwhelming&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These conversations continue to teach us something important&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students are not struggling for the same reasons&lt;br&gt;
Some need clearer explanations&lt;br&gt;
Some need formulas at the right moment&lt;br&gt;
Some need learning broken into smaller steps&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The future of education cannot be built around one teaching style&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It has to adapt to different ways of learning&lt;br&gt;
That is exactly what BAINT is exploring&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every interview helps us understand students a little better&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every insight helps us build a little smarter&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We will keep listening and building&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thank you for following the journey&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;See you in Week 22 🌱📚&lt;/p&gt;

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