Bring your own phosphor: thirteen problems Claude Code couldn't solve without me

The model gave me neon green. Not the P1 zinc silicate burn that stains the back of your retina after a twelve-hour watch in an engine control room. Neon. The hex-code green of a Halloween website. Flat. Dead. No electron beam. No decay curve. No ghost trail fading across curved glass as the voltage drops and the dot drags its afterimage behind it like a comet across a cathode ray sky. Three weeks ago I built the image pipeline. The phosphor fight started immediately.