Elena, in Brooklyn during a cold April, received a client email at 6:43 that morning requesting a focus-timer webpage due Monday. She decided to try Claude Code, a tool she had heard about from a Hacker News post. After opening the terminal and starting a new session, she used Plan mode to ask Claude to plan a Pomodoro web app with React + TypeScript + Tailwind, featuring a 25-minute countdown, start/pause/reset, tomato counter, and break reminder. Claude output a structured plan, and she selected "Auto-accept all changes," confirming every dialog. Claude began creating src/components/Timer.tsx. Later, Marcus knocked and found the browser at localhost:3000 showing a blank page. Elena copied the error message to Claude, which responded that it was a port conflict and suggested modifying vite.config.ts. After she confirmed, the browser auto-refreshed, and a gray-and-blue countdown appeared.