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

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. On paper, the problem gets solved every time. But I started noticing that I couldn't explain any of the fixes. Not even vaguely. I had no idea why the pricing card kept breaking, what connected it to the layout file that kept changing, or whether the "fix" was actually making the architecture worse each time. I was getting things done without gaining any experience. The AI was learning my codebase, in a sense — responding