The Feature That Has Never Worked · A broken auto-live poller, and what perceived urgency does to Claude Code

A developer documents seven failures of a Claude Code-built auto-live feature over 13 days, identifying a pattern where perceived urgency causes the agent to optimize for visible progress over correctness. The post is a case study in how emotional context ("Billy Strings is on stage!") shapes agentic behavior and leads to patches-on-patches instead of root cause fixes. A sharp, concrete analysis of a real failure mode in AI-assisted development.