Tilman

Geoffrey Litt has a great new perspective on how we work with AI-generated code. We're not bound to prompting and moving on. We can have the AI explain what it built — teaching the background, building intuition before showing code, even ending with an interactive quiz so we don't fool ourselves into thinking we understood. His sharp point: we do this not to *verify* the agent (it's getting good at that itself) but to *participate* — to keep enough fluency to grow ourselves and to come up with the next idea.

Geoffrey is talking about code, but I feel like this transfers to concept work, texts, and imagery. But I don't think it transfers *easily*: his techniques work because code is a formal, executable system. What's the steppable micro-world for a generated concept, text or an image? The quiz travels, at least. The rest I'd like to keep thinking about.

Read it: www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck.html^*

16 Bachelor of Design students at TH Nürnberg built a platformer in the faculty's project week. Only three had ever used a game engine before. Three days later, ten games were finished — solo or in small teams, all playable in any browser.

The most interesting part isn't the speed. It's what made it possible. Godot has become a solid open-source engine that students learn in hours rather than days. And the web has quietly grown into a remarkably universal free and open platform for interactive media — built on open standards, no media platforms or app stores in sights. WebAssembly lets compiled engines like Godot run in the browser at near-native speed. A finished game ships as a folder of HTML, WASM, and assets. You just send a URL. A good time to be designing digital things.

→ Full write-up, photos, all ten games: tilman.me/garden/Platformer+Game+Jam+2026^*

Our monthly club is going big in July! The Nürnberg Digital Festival is a perfect opportunity to reach out to all those creative people around Nürnberg, who are interested in running their own websites. Come and join us! We are very eager to hear your ideas and thoughts about publishing on the web.

nuernberg.digital/programm/details/homebrew-website-club-selbstbestimmt-und-kreativ-im-web.html^*

Ethan Mollick on AI in education: "Just as calculators did not replace the need for learning math, AI will not replace the need for learning to write and think critically. It may take awhile to sort it out, but we will do so.“

open.substack.com/pub/oneusefulthing/p/the-future-of-education-in-a-world^*