I built a system-wide tech dictionary because AI made me feel dumb

The moment that started it all A few months ago, I asked Claude to help me set up a deployment pipeline. It gave me a perfectly working config with nginx reverse proxy, Docker multi-stage builds, health check endpoints, and graceful shutdown handlers. It worked on the first try. And I understood maybe 40% of it. I could use it. I could copy-paste it. I could even modify it slightly. But if someone asked me what a reverse proxy actually does, or why the Docker build had multiple FROM statements, I'd have to fake my way through. This is the new normal for a lot of us. AI writes code that works, but it uses vocabulary we haven't fully internalized. And the gap between "it works" and "I understand why" keeps growing. The flow problem The obvious answer is "just look it up." But here's what that actually looks like: You're in VS Code, reading AI-generated code You hit a term you don't fully get You open a browser, Google it You get a Stack Overflow answer written for someone with a differen