The hard part of an AI quiz generator isn't the questions — it's the wrong answers

If you wire an LLM up to "write me 10 multiple-choice questions about photosynthesis," you'll get something that looks great in the demo and falls apart the moment a real student uses it. I've been building a quiz generator for a while now, and almost all of the actual engineering went into things that have nothing to do with generating the question text. Here are the problems that turned out to matter. 1. The distractors are the whole game. A multiple-choice question is only as good as its wro...