I returned to coding after a long break, and Lovable was where I picked it up again. The apps looked great, worked at first glance, and came together in a few hours. At first, that felt remarkable. But it stopped being enough the moment I wanted to know what the code was doing – and why. That was when my approach began to change. The difference isn’t about the tool, or how much of the code AI writes for you. It’s about the contract you accept with your output: whether you can explain what you…