Edition 341 | April 13, 2026 The Dyslexic AI Newsletter by LM Lab AI

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Happy Monday.

Last week was one of those weeks where everything felt like it was moving at once. In the best way.

On Thursday, my daughter Makena was at EmpowerED Educational Psychology Services in Sebastopol getting assessed for learning differences. While she did her thing, I did mine. I started vibe coding custom software for her homeschool curriculum right there in the waiting room.

That assessment data gave me what I needed to fine-tune her AI learning tools. By the time I got home, I was deep into building. And I did not really stop all weekend.

And now I am writing this to you. And I need to tell you something.

I have never had this much fun building things in my life.

I am not exaggerating. This is the most fun I have had working on anything. It does not feel like work. It feels like what I imagine it must have felt like for the kids who were into video games back when people were first coding video games. That rush of creating something from nothing. That feeling where you look up and three hours have passed and you do not care because you are having a blast.

That is where I am right now. And I want to share it with you.

I want to tell you about this week. Not theory. Not frameworks. Just what actually happened when I sat down with these tools.

I built custom homeschool software for Makena. Her assessment at EmpowerED gave us real data about how she learns. I took some of that information and started fine-tuning the AI tools we already use for her curriculum. We have been building her homeschool system for a while now (if you have been here since Edition 337, you know about the Homeschool Parent's Guide to AI). But last week the data got sharper. The tools got more specific to how she actually processes information. And the whole thing got a little bit better.

It is a work in progress. It is not perfect. But it is making life easier for all of us. And it keeps improving.

I built a Dyslexic AI Evaluation Tool. This one started as a question: how do you actually evaluate whether an AI tool works for a neurodivergent thinker? Not just "is it good" but specifically, does it reduce cognitive load? Does it work with voice input? Does it handle the way a dyslexic brain organizes information?

So I built an evaluation framework. A comprehensive way to assess any AI tool or large language model through the lens of neurodivergent thinking needs. How it handles memory. How it manages context switching. How well it supports voice-first workflows. Whether it reduces or adds to your cognitive overhead.

That led to a business version. Once I had the evaluation framework for neurodivergent needs, I realized the same structure works for any business trying to figure out which AI tools actually fit their workflow. Not which tools are trending on Twitter. Which tools actually make your specific operation better. So I started building a business evaluation tool using the same bones.

And then a family version. Because if businesses need this, families definitely need this. Especially homeschool families who are drowning in tool options and have no way to figure out which ones actually work for their kids. An evaluation tool that helps a family assess their AI tool stack for homeschooling, personal agents, productivity, all of it.

And then there is the Cognitive Partner platform. I need to be honest with you about this. I know I have been talking about it for a while. I should have launched it already. Part of the delay is perfectionism. Part of it is that I honestly hate sales and marketing. Building is fun. Selling feels like a different kind of work entirely.

But here is what is actually built. The Socratic, Strategic, and Skeptic models from the DLM architecture are set up and working. Career guidance for neurodivergent professionals. How to use AI tools in your specific role. Which jobs are disappearing with AI, which ones are getting better, how to position yourself. And if you are a kid who is neurodivergent, what career paths are the best fit for how your brain works.

On top of that: the benchmarking tools I just told you about. A prompt guide covering business, professional, personal, and school use cases. Agent models and workflows. Basically, everything I have been building in what I call our Dyslexic Cognitive Partner project.

We have vibe coded hundreds of thousands of lines of code at this point. I will be the first to admit that most of it was a learning process and will not make it into the final products. But all of it got us here. And all of it has been fun.

That is the part I keep coming back to. This does not feel like work. It feels like play that happens to produce useful things. And I think that feeling is something worth paying attention to, especially for neurodivergent thinkers who spent years being told that work is supposed to be hard.

And here is the part I need you to hear: anybody can do this.

I am not an engineer. I am a guy with a recreation degree from Humboldt State who talks to his computer. Everything I built this week was vibe coded. Voice to text. Natural language. Me describing what I wanted and the AI helping me build it.

If you read Edition 324 ("When Voice Stops Working"), you know that voice-to-text is not just a convenience for me. It is an accessibility tool. It is how my brain gets ideas out of my head and into the world. And right now, these AI tools are better at understanding voice-first input than they have ever been.

Let me step back and just say this plainly.

I have never seen a time like this.

The number of options. The pace of releases. The capabilities that are showing up week after week. It is unlike anything I have experienced in three and a half years of doing this work.

Just this week. Meta launched Muse Spark, their first major new model in a year. Google released Gemma 4 for open-source developers. Anthropic keeps shipping features for Claude at a pace that is hard to track. ChatGPT is integrating with everything. OpenClaw agents are getting more autonomous. New tools are launching daily.

It is overwhelming. I am not going to pretend it is not.

The context switching alone is enough to make your head spin. Jumping from tool to tool. Having to re-explain yourself to each one. Asking the same question three different ways because the AI forgot what you were working on or lost the thread.

If you read Edition 333 ("25 Tools. Zero Memory."), you know this is the problem I have been banging on about for months. Too many tools. Too little memory. Too much cognitive load just managing the tools that are supposed to reduce cognitive load.

But here is what is also true: it is getting better. Fast.

Memory is improving across every platform. Claude now has memory for all users. ChatGPT's memory keeps getting more reliable. Context windows are massive. The tools are starting to remember who you are and what you are working on.

We are not there yet. But we are closer than we have ever been to the day when you can do almost everything by voice, communicate with a handful of apps instead of dozens, and actually take advantage of all these capabilities without losing your mind in the process.

Here is where I need to get personal with you for a second.

This time is going to disrupt a lot of things. Institutions will change. Jobs will be eliminated. Jobs will be created. The way we work and learn and build is shifting under our feet.

And for most people, that is terrifying.

But can I be honest? I work really well in chaos.

Not because I chose to. Because I had to.

Nothing has ever quite worked for me out of the box. And I do not just mean reading or spelling. I mean the everyday stuff. I am 6 foot 4 and wear size 16 shoes. Try finding clothes that fit when you are built like that. Try fitting into desks designed for average-sized people. Try navigating a world where the defaults were not made for you.

Dyslexic thinkers have been doing this our entire lives. Adapting. Adjusting. Finding the workaround. Making things fit that were never designed to.

When the world is stable and predictable and rewards doing things the "right" way? We struggle. We always have.

But when the world is shifting fast and nobody knows the rules yet and the ability to adapt quickly is the most valuable skill in the room? That is our moment.

In Edition 334 ("The Data Is In"), we looked at the Anthropic labor market study that pointed to cognitive flexibility as the key to job security in the AI economy. In Edition 331 ("Meet in the Middle"), we talked about the generational crossroads where different ways of thinking become a strategic advantage.

This is that crossroads. Right now. April 2026.

The people who can zig when others are zagging. The people who have been forced to iterate and adapt their whole lives. The people who never relied on doing things the "standard" way because the standard way never worked for them.

Those people are about to have their moment. And I think a lot of them read this newsletter.

I want to tell you about something I saw last week that I have not been able to stop thinking about.

My girlfriend's daughter is in a program called ArtQuest at Santa Rosa High School. It is a magnet program for the visual and performing arts. A high school within a high school. She is into film and cinematography. They were showcasing student work, so I went.

Santa Rosa High School was founded in 1874. It is one of the oldest high schools in California. And the campus feels like it. You walk through these Brick Gothic buildings from the 1920s, and it is like stepping into a movie. The same black and white checkered tile in the bathrooms. The same gorgeous auditorium that was clearly built for the arts, grand and beautiful, the kind of theater you would be proud of anywhere in Northern California. For a 49-year-old guy, walking those halls felt like being inside one of those old black and white school movies. Almost Harry Potter. You can feel the history in the walls.

And then you walk out of the main building and across to the portables where ArtQuest runs.

And the second I stepped inside those classrooms, everything changed.

Top-level equipment. Digital arts setups. Film production gear. Multiple mediums across visual and performing arts. Hands-on, experiential learning in disciplines that matter right now. I know people in these industries as an entrepreneur, and some of them would dream of having access to the technology these kids are learning on.

Here is the part that hit me.

Both of these worlds exist on the same campus. The 150-year-old brick buildings that represent everything traditional education has been. And the portables with the cutting-edge equipment that represent everything education could become.

Old meets new. Side by side. On the same patch of ground.

And the arts program? The one in the portables with the real-world tech and the hands-on learning? That is the one on the chopping block. In a lot of places, programs like ArtQuest are being pushed back toward "extracurricular" status. Nice to have. Not essential.

That is the wrong direction.

When I walked off that campus, I was certain of something. The experiential, creative, hands-on approach to learning that ArtQuest represents? That is not a nice-to-have in an AI-first world. That is the model.

Memorization is over. AI can memorize anything. What AI cannot do is what those kids were doing in those classrooms. Creating. Problem-solving with their hands. Developing a point of view. Learning to see the world through a lens, literally and figuratively.

If you have been reading since Edition 325 ("My 14-Year-Old Daughter Just Proved Me Wrong"), you know I think about education constantly. Makena is homeschooled. I am building her AI tools by hand. But I also know that not every family can do what we are doing. Programs like ArtQuest are the bridge for the kids who need experiential learning in a public school setting.

And they are the kinds of programs that neurodivergent learners thrive in. Different modalities. Hands-on work. Creative expression as a primary language. Not sitting still and memorizing. Building things and making things.

Education is at a crossroads. And the path forward cannot be the same one we have been walking. It needs to be rethought and redesigned from the ground up. We have the tools to do it. That is what makes this time so exciting. The more people see what programs like ArtQuest are doing, and understand that this is not a luxury but a necessity, the closer we get.

I am not going to sugarcoat this.

Even for someone who thrives in chaos, the pace right now is a lot.

It is hard to focus. There are so many options and so many new things launching that it is genuinely difficult to concentrate on any one thing long enough to get deep with it. I catch myself jumping from tool to tool, chasing the newest thing instead of mastering what I already have.

The tools still forget. Despite all the improvements in memory, we are still in a world where you have to re-explain context more often than you should. That is cognitive load that should not exist. We talked about this in Edition 339 ("Your AI Just Forgot Everything. Again.") and it is still true.

There is no map. Nobody has figured out the "right" tool stack yet. Not for individuals. Not for families. Not for businesses. Everyone is experimenting. That is exciting but it is also exhausting.

That is exactly why I started building those evaluation tools this week. Because the question is not "what is the best AI tool." The question is "what is the best AI tool for you, your brain, your workflow, your family."

And that is a different question for every person reading this.

Three things. This week.

1. Build Something Small.

You do not need to build custom homeschool software. Start smaller. Open Claude or ChatGPT and describe a problem you deal with every week. Ask it to help you build a solution. A template. A checklist. A workflow. A simple tool.

You are not coding. You are describing. That is vibe coding. And if you can talk, you can do it. That is what Edition 324 was about. Your voice is your development tool.

2. Evaluate One Tool You Already Use.

Pick one AI tool you use regularly. Ask yourself three questions. Does it reduce my cognitive load or add to it? Does it remember enough about me to be useful across sessions? Does it work the way my brain works, or am I constantly adapting to it?

If the answer to any of those is not great, that is useful information. You might need a different tool. Or you might need to set up the one you have better. That is what the Single Source of Truth from Edition 329 is for.

3. Tell Me What You Built.

I mean this. Hit reply. Tell me what you tried this week. What you built. What worked. What did not. I want to hear from you.

Because the best ideas I have had in 341 editions came from conversations with people like you. Not from research papers. From someone saying "hey, I tried this thing and it worked" or "hey, this broke and I do not know why."

That is how we get better. Together.

I want to leave you with something simple.

If you are using AI at all right now, even a little bit, I applaud you. Seriously. Most people are still on the sidelines. You are in the game. That matters.

But I am also challenging you. Dig deeper. See how far you can take it. Try something this week that you have not tried before.

Because here is what I know after 341 editions and three and a half years of this work.

Nobody is getting replaced by AI. People will get replaced by other people who know how to use AI.

And the people who know how to adapt, iterate, and thrive when the rules are still being written?

Those people are not worried about the future. They are building it.

Right now. In waiting rooms. In home offices. On phones. By voice. One messy, imperfect, exciting experiment at a time.

Edition 342: I need to talk about the weight in my chest. Three years. 340 editions. And I am still not sure I am fully understood. But I am starting to understand what that feeling actually is. And where this mission is headed next.

Matt "Coach" Ivey Founder, LM Lab AI | Creator, The Dyslexic AI Newsletter

Dictated, not typed. Obviously.

🔥 I have never seen a time like this in AI. The number of tools, the pace of releases, the capabilities showing up weekly. It is overwhelming and thrilling at the same time.

🛠️ This week I vibe coded custom homeschool software for Makena based on her assessment data, built a Dyslexic AI Evaluation Tool, started business and family versions, and kept building out the Cognitive Partner platform with career guidance, prompt libraries, and agent workflows. Hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Most of it learning. All of it fun.

🌪️ The chaos is the feature. Dyslexic thinkers have been adapting to a world not built for them since childhood. A world where nobody knows the rules yet is exactly where that skill pays off.

🏫 I visited ArtQuest at Santa Rosa High School, a 150-year-old campus with a cutting-edge arts magnet program in portables next door to Brick Gothic buildings from the 1920s. Old meets new. The hands-on, experiential model is exactly what education needs in an AI-first world. And it is the kind of program being cut.

😤 It is also hard right now. Focus is difficult. Tools still forget. There is no map for the "right" tool stack. That is why evaluation frameworks matter. Also I should have launched the Cognitive Partner platform already. Perfectionism and hating sales are real obstacles. Working on it.

💪 If you are using AI at all right now, you are ahead of most people. But I challenge you to dig deeper this week. Build something. Evaluate something. Tell me what you tried.

🗣️ Anybody can vibe code. If you can talk, you can build software. That is not hype. That is what I did from a waiting room in Sebastopol this week..