> download musikcube because it looks like an easy client-server music thing
> it works, but the client doesn't work with system-wide media stuff like stop and start on tap on my headphones
> look at api, looks easy enough
> tell claude to read the docs and write the code
> gives me a working player
> duration of the music isn't there
> there's an issue about it, but no reply
> ask claude to try some other endpoints, none of them return what we need
> copy the source of the official client into my repo, ask claude to read it and just do exactly what its doing
> it finds that it uses an undocumented api to do 'raw queries', i tell it to use websocat to try out which query gives the correct result
> takes a few tries between trying and reading the code, but eventually figures it out
> ask it to integrate the code
> have a working musikcube web client now

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