Why I stopped asking AI to fix my code and started asking it to explain it

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

I knew the tips. Inspect element, global search, pages vs. components. It all worked. But something still felt off - like I was navigating the app without ever actually understanding it. The moment I realized what was wrong: I'd fixed the same pricing card three times in two weeks, and each time I had to start from scratch. I wasn't learning anything. I was just outsourcing to AIs. The loop I was stuck in Something breaks. I paste the error into Cursor. It fixes it. Two days later, something else breaks - sometimes the same thing. I paste it again. It fixes it again.