The Homework Helper Rules

AI is a coach, not a substitute player.

The lesson

AI can explain anything with endless patience — that's a superpower for learning. Having it do your homework FOR you is (a) cheating and (b) stealing your own learning. The difference, with examples of coach-mode questions.

Try it — 60 seconds

Coach mode: "I don't get [thing from school]. Explain it a totally different way than my teacher did, then give me one practice problem."

Copy it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — whichever you already use. Fill in the brackets with your real life.

Watch out

If you turn in AI's work, the AI gets the education and you get the grade. Only one of those is worth anything later.