There's a specific, uncomfortable test worth trying: open a blank file and try to build something you "learned" last week, with zero references open.
Most people freeze within minutes. Not because they didn't understand the tutorial — because understanding and building draw on completely different mental muscles, and tutorials only ever train one of them.
That gap is invisible until you actually test for it, which is exactly why most people never notice it's there.
I built MentorOS around closing it — it watches your screen live while you build and interrupts the copy-paste reflex before it becomes a habit, making sure the thinking happens, not just the typing.
Free demo's link [MentorOS.cloud]
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