I Shipped Broken Code and Wrote an Article About It

This is part of a series on what AI actually changes in software development. Previous pieces: The Gatekeeping Panic , The Meter Was Always Running , Who Said What to Whom . On February 9th, I published an article about a system I built to solve knowledge collapse in developer communities. The Foundation is a side project built in public, iterated in public, mistakes included. The system was broken. I didn't know yet. I'd shipped clipboard scraping to GitHub, documented the workflow, written the article. Ctrl+A to select everything. Ctrl+C to copy. Extension intercepts it. Clean, intuitive, logical. It only captured user messages. Missed every AI response. Missed every artifact. Missed anything above the visible viewport. The flaw was invisible at review depth. It looked like it worked because I reviewed it at the same speed I built it. The Confident Ship The HTML import came first. Save your Claude conversation as HTML, run a CLI command, done — searchable in under two seconds. It wor