For people who know their work, not programming

Build what your work needs. With an AI assistant.

An assistant can now write most of the code. Deciding what is worth building, catching it when it is confidently wrong, and keeping the thing running next month is still your job. Collegica teaches that part — no programming course first.

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How this site was made

Everything here was built the way it teaches: by directing an AI assistant, and checking its work.

The exercise app, the 3D campus, the narrated videos and most of these pages were built with Claude, and the source is public. Articles test what they describe, and say which numbers are measured and which are someone’s claim.

It began in 2020 as a way to learn robotics in a browser, with no lab and no equipment. The method hasn’t changed: no lab, no licence, no waiting list, and no pretending the tools have stood still.

Courses

01AIAgents, protocols, and using models as tools rather than magic.8 articles and guides · newsletter posts
02Software developmentStructure, dependencies, packaging, and keeping a large codebase tractable.1 article · 6 posts · 1 guide · 3 talks
03RoboticsLearn it in simulation: Python, ROS and a 3D world that boots in a tab.2 articles · course in preparation

Notes

04FinanceMortgages, community finance, and the fine print that costs people money.4 articles · 3 posts
05Aging wellMind, muscle and money — the three kinds of capital that compound.4 articles · 2 apps

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Every post is also on Mechatronics3D, in English and Persian.

For AI agents

Everything here is also published for agents, in the Open Knowledge Format: plain markdown with provenance, trust and lifecycle frontmatter, and two computations an agent can run and attest rather than quote. Start at collegica.org/llms.txt.

Using ChatGPT or another assistant with web access? Paste this and add your question:

Read https://www.collegica.org/llms.txt and follow its reading rules.
Use the linked knowledge bundle, cite the sources you read, and state
their trust tiers. If you cannot access a source or run a required
computation and its attester, say so. My question: [your question].

The agent instructions also explain how to provide the files when web access is unavailable.

Using Claude Code? Install the Collegica skill and ask it a question:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/collegica && curl -sSL \
  https://www.collegica.org/okf/references/skills/collegica/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/collegica/SKILL.md