James was coding 16 hours a day in January. It took getting a cold to make him stop. Tim, meanwhile, has figured out how to ship features during school drop-off. Episode 7 of Breaking the Build is about AI addiction — what they've actually been building, why it feels like a slot machine, and what happens when you ask AI to fix a database conflict and it just deletes the database. Also: Tim found a "goof plate" and Google had nothing to do with it.
