Why I Built My Own AI Tutor (and What I Learned)

Why I Built My Own AI Tutor (and What I Learned) Most devs have built a side project chat wrapper around OpenAI or Anthropic. Few have tried to turn one into a real learning tool. This post is about what changes when you do — and what I learned building Sikho.ai. Chat is the easy part Hooking a model into a UI takes an afternoon. The hard part is making the experience feel like a tutor instead of a search engine. Tutors remember you. They adapt. They do not start every interaction...