how I fixed my ai goose tutor to stop punishing understanding

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a few weeks ago, I built professor goose, a socratic ai tutor built around the feynman idea that if you can’t explain it, you don’t understand it. the way professor goose works specifically is you pick a topic, rubber duck at a 3d goose, and instead of answering it asks follow up questions until it understands. that begs the question, how does the goose know it has understood? that’s when I thought of an understanding bar - always available to the user to help visualize how much the goose un