AI coding assistant that enforces learning and explains AI-generated code

I stopped using Cursor because it worked too well. Here's why that's a problem I tried Cursor. It was incredible. I could build things faster than ever. So I stopped using it. Here's what I noticed: I was getting progressively dumber. I lost touch with what my code actually did. Everything became about outputs and constantly explaining every step to the AI. For people using Cursor, Claude Code and other AI tools as "vibe coders" genuine question: For people who weren't new are you ok with keep getting dumber? For new people to coding Are you okay never actually learning how things work? I see so many people saying they "built" something. But did you actually? How can you be comfortable not knowing what your code does? Look, we all make concessions. I don't like UI work so I let AI handle the pretty parts. But I still write my backend and core frontend because I love it and I want to understand it. There's a level of black box I'll accept (like an API), but not my entire codebase being AI generated. For newcomers: what happens when AI can't solve it? What if it takes 10 hours of prompting to fix something you could've solved in 30 minutes with actual knowledge? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe people will end up better than they started. But I'm betting on learning anyway. What do you think? Am I being a boomer or is there something here?

@chris_bgp I agree, but I also think that is audience dependent Some people are looking for a tool to solve a specific problem and not to be better at building tools Although being better at building tools has the likelihood to fix all problems coming soon