Hey Academy, Every beginner builder using AI tools needs to hear this — yes, AI will generate messy, bloated, or unnecessary code sometimes. It happens. Even with the best prompts. That doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. This came up when an AI Architects member shared her project and asked honestly: "Did I just build a bunch of AI slop?" This happened to me just last weekend, Claude Code kept adding unnecessary stuff, not cleaning up after itself, no matter how many times I told it to go back and tidy things up. The good news? There's a prompt for that. Inside the AI Architects Classroom, there's a code review prompt you can run on any stack that will: - Flag urgent vs. non-urgent issues so you know what actually needs attention now - Pull from official docs and community best practices for genuinely useful feedback - Explain everything in plain English, no technical jargon

Hey Academy, In this video I’ll show you Shockwave—a free, open source Obsidian clone I built with a fully integrated AI coding agent baked right in. You’ll see how the agent edits your notes directly inline, runs tools, manages your API secrets, and pulls in global or workspace-level skills. I’ll demo real use cases: listing top coding agents on the fly, building a content strategy, regenerating a YouTube thumbnail with Gemini and an image API, and spinning up a brand-new skill to fetch viral videos from YouTube. I’ll also walk through GitHub sync, so you can move between computers or share workspaces with your team—no paid external services required.