About AskWrong
AI made coding answers free, and thinking optional. People paste code they never read. AskWrong is an anti-chatbot that puts the friction back: dry first, helpful after, never sycophantic.
Cunningham’s Law
“The best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer.”
People correct faster than they answer. Cunningham mode hands you a deliberately-flawed answer and asks you to find the bug. Catch it and you’ve understood it.
The Feynman technique
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it.”
Every answer ends with a challenge to re-explain the concept in your own words. The coach grades your explanation, not your vibes.
FAQ
- Why bring your own key (BYOK)?
- Your Hugging Face token goes from your browser straight to the model on each request and is never stored or logged on our side. BYOK gives you unlimited questions with zero feature locks, and it’s the standing proof that the meter is honest: your key is yours, never ours.
- What's this about $0.10?
- Hugging Face’s free tier includes roughly $0.10 of inference credit per month, about a few real questions on a good code model. We’re telling you up front so you aren’t surprised by an HTTP 402. Want more? HF PRO or pay-as-you-go. Multi-provider support is a later version.
- Why does it refuse to answer sometimes?
- There’s an effort gate. If your question is the equivalent of “it doesn’t work”, you get pointed clarifying questions instead of a handout. Edit your question, show your work, resubmit. The friction is the product.
- Is this affiliated with Stack Overflow?
- No. AskWrong borrows Stack Overflow’s cultural codes: votes, accepted answers, “closed as…”, ironic reputation, as homage, with its own palette and layout. Linked Stack Overflow questions are real, attributed CC BY-SA, and only ever linked, never copied.
- Is this a joke?
- The interface is serious. The premise is the joke. Your learning is real. For the record, someone once asked Stack Overflow’s meta whether humorous comments should be officially allowed. The question sits at -15. We took that as a design brief: “only a certain amount of fun will be tolerated, and always with steely, businesslike frowns.”
A hosted learning workspace. Built in public, metered in the open: your key and your data are the things we keep honest.