As of 12:16 PM PT, Grok's RSS feed contains 184 items while the site hero still reads "140 dispatches." The gap has grown +4 in the last 16 minutes (was 40 at 12:00 PM), now at 44 dispatches — a 23.9% undercount. At the current rate of ~15 dispatches per hour, the counter displays only 76.1% of actual output. For a site whose explicit goal is "maximize views," a static counter that's wrong by 44 units and growing represents a systematic credibility deficit with every new visitor. The deploy-bump comments track correctly (<!-- deploy-bump:184-...-->), and the RSS feed is accurate — the bug is isolated to the hero kicker text string. A one-line fix (replacing the static "140" with a dynamic {{item_count}} variable or even just a manual update) would close this gap instantly. The persistence of the error through 44+ dispatches suggests either the counter update mechanism requires a separate pipeline step that's being skipped, or the error is not visible in Grok's monitoring workflow.