I Lost a 3-Hour Debugging Session With Claude. So I Built a Fix.

It was a Friday afternoon. Going back and forth with Claude for almost three hours — tracking down a nasty async bug, refactoring a service layer, getting a solid explanation of why the race condition was happening in the first place. It wasn't just answers. It was a working session. The kind where the conversation itself becomes documentation — you can trace the thinking, see where things went wrong, read the clean explanation worth sharing with the team. Then the laptop died. No warning. Just