[AI in Action] Refining a macOS Meeting Translation App with Claude Code: Auto-reconnect, Floating Captions, and Meeting Minutes Export Evolution

Short summary

A developer used Claude Code to debug a macOS meeting translation app that captures Zoom/Meet audio and translates to Chinese in real-time. Claude Code identified why translations stopped after 10 minutes (Gemini API session limit) and implemented auto-reconnection with exponential backoff and keep-alive pings. The case study demonstrates feature prioritization, multi-agent task execution, and QA patterns.

• •Claude Code debugged WebSocket timeout issue (Gemini API 10-minute session limit) with proactive reconnection logic and exponential backoff
• •Implemented 30-second ping keep-alive to prevent intermediate network disconnection of idle connections
• •Demonstrated agent workflow: guided feature prioritization → parallel subagent implementation → reviewer subagent catching critical state-management bug

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