Many have pointed out that the chat interface is a poor fit for AI in many workflows. This is perhaps clearest in STEM education, where most homework is still handwritten. Not because students are Luddites, but because typing equations and sketching diagrams remains prohibitively clunky. Most people will never learn LaTeX, and for good reason.
But even if typing math were effortless, handwriting would still be pedagogically superior. There's something about the act of writing by hand, the deliberate pace and spatial reasoning, that cements understanding in a way typing doesn't. The research backs this up, but so does intuition: you don't really know an equation until you've drawn it yourself a dozen times.
This is the tension I wanted to resolve. The best AI tools right now live in text boxes. The best learning happens with pen and paper. Whiteboard.computer is my attempt to bring AI into the medium where learning actually takes place.