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Hey HN! Lathe is an experiment in using LLMs to teach me something new, instead of doing the work for me. It generates a hands-on, source-backed tutorial for any technical topic you want to learn. Then you work through it yourself by reading and typing the code by hand ( gasp ) in a local UI built for exactly that. It's a Go CLI plus LLM agent skills (Claude Code / Cursor / Codex). You prompt something like "/lathe build a 3D slicer in Erlang", run `lathe serve` to spin up a local webapp, and re

we have a real product (thanks claude) and dozen users signedup still using up their free credits. setup payments because it was so easy, then decided to use their atlas product to incorporate and take a single 6 figure pre-seed funding thru stripe invoice (yes stupid, but we are early). Rest of payments are all free coupon payments for testing purposes. Stripe accepted the pre-seed payment, 3 days ago connected to mercury to send it there and just now closed my account and holding funds for 120