I built an AI thesis tool after ChatGPT invented 3 fake citations

I built an AI thesis tool after ChatGPT invented 3 fake citations Posted on dev.to by Dom, founder of Academly.ai I finished my Bachelor's degree at 35. Married, one small kid, full-time job in IT. I still remember sitting at my desk at midnight, staring at a blank page, completely blocked. No idea how to structure my theoretical framework. No idea how to find the red thread in 40 PDFs of research material. That was before AI tools existed. I struggled through it manually. Fast forward a few yea