Building an AI Tutor for Ethiopia: What I Learned Competing in AWS AIdeas 2025

Over 70% of Ethiopian students don't have reliable internet access. Yet here I was, building an AI tutor that needed to work for them too. When I started building Ivy, my AI tutor for Ethiopian students, I thought the hard part would be the voice recognition in Amharic. Turns out, that was just the beginning of a journey that taught me more about building resilient AI systems than any tutorial ever could. The Offline Challenge That Changed Everything My first prototype was a typical...