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Koji creator Sue says the AI tutor's viral success shows users embrace educational tools but reject job-replacing automation

The tutoring app went viral despite growing public skepticism

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Sue@suekhim

The week that we launched our AI tutor Koji, “AI” as a topic was getting commencement speakers booed off stage.

We were worried the launch was doomed, but instead it went super viral.

Why?

It turns out people aren’t “anti-AI”.

They’re anti-idiocracy, anti-job replacement, anti-slop.

But if you show them a product that will help them and their kids be better thinkers, they’ll embrace it.

A positive, pro-social vision of AI is hugely resonant.

Thanks @Jason @twistartups for having me on!

9:52 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 13.8K Views
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Positive users praise AI Tutor Koji's pro-social anti-idiocracy framing as a useful and thoughtful approach, while negative users accuse the project of hypocrisy between its stated goals and actual methods.

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hawa@hawaalidrammeh

@suekhim are you hiring sue😄

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Raj Nagulapalle@rnagulapalle

"Anti-idiocracy, not anti-AI" is a much more useful frame than most builders are working with. A lot of teams hear backlash and conclude the market isn't ready, when the real signal is that their product doesn't have a clear answer to "does this make me sharper or does it just do the thing for me." Koji apparently had that answer. That's the bar, and it's a higher bar than just shipping something that works.

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Sue@suekhim

@rnagulapalle a mantra I repeat a lot: "people can tell"

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Our Old Dad@OurOldDad

@suekhim They're anti-idiocracy while marching straight down that path. They are only anti-idiocracy results, not anti-idiocracy actions that bring the results.

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