ABC slow-jog log #8: need #3, week one, still zero code — and I learned the real problem

# Watching beat guessing I claimed need #3: remind parents of pickup time automatically. Week one, as promised, I wrote no code. I sat with the director for two evenings and just watched. Here is what I would have gotten wrong from my desk: she does not forget to send reminders. She sends them, and parents still miss them, because they land at 3pm buried under twenty other texts. So the real one-liner shifted: not send a reminder, but make the pickup reminder impossible to miss at the right moment. That change would have cost me two weeks if I had built the obvious thing first. Watching cost me two evenings. 看两晚,省两周。 Week two: the ugliest version that lands at the right moment. 📐