Your AI coding assistant quotes a specific line from a specific file. The file is real. The section name is close. The quote sounds exactly right. But the line doesn’t exist — and that’s precisely what makes it dangerous.

A Quote That Never Was

I’ve been working with Claude Code on a large healthcare integration project — syncing an on-premise practice management system (I’ll call it “SimplePractice”) with a cloud FHIR platform. Over several weeks, we’ve built push/pull sync, environment tooling, documentation, and dozens of shell scripts. It’s been genuinely productive.