Why is learning a new field still gated by knowing what to ask?
Opportunity
The hard part of learning something new was never access to information, it is not knowing the questions. A personal model could map what you actually want to do, find the gaps in what you know, and build the path. Most tools still sit and wait for you to already know what to ask.
Why it matters
This is the personal-growth promise of AI made concrete, and almost nobody has built it well.
How I score the opportunity
The Opportunity Score is my own read, not a measurement: how much it hurts, how often it bites, and how little exists to solve it today. Higher means I think it is more worth building.
How much pain it causes when it shows up.
How often people actually run into it.
How little good tooling exists for it today.
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