Wonder how often OpenAI updates their status page. Because currently becoming unresponsive but they currently don’t have an issue.
I wish there was a time stamp on each response. I make a lot changes, first in dev then migrate the changes to prod. Chats can be really long and hard to search for. If there was a time stamp on the response it would give me a more of a reference point.
The one thing I have noticed using Claude and ChatGPT is, in the chat at the beginning of the conversation where they are explaining how to build something. They will spit parts of the code, then at the end of the section of the chat, they will say “Do you want me to create the complete code?”. Yes! Is it trying to teach me code? But I just want you to build.
So far don’t like ChatGPT. Troubleshooting a syntax error on line 300. ChatGPT couldn’t figure it out and I looked at it there was duplicate “async function”, removed it, no errors on line 300 again. The page that I am working, loads but the display formatting is all wrong. ChatGPT says, just upload the whole index.html file, I did.
Comes back with:
I thought I didn’t update the index.html at first, nope I did. It thought, hallucinated, that entry was still there! How can I just anything it says?
Coding with ChatGPT 5
Trying to code with ChatGPT, so far don’t like their Canvas app which is like the Artifacts with Claude. But it is organized differently. Working on a project with ChatGPT and it started creating code and ran into error. A great start!
Coding with Claude
I specifically have used Claude, Opus 4.1 model. Love how it creates and shows you the code. I tell Claude to develop a HTML5, Javascript single file game and it just does it. The way it organizes the code, in Artifacts, which when I first started on the Claude AI coding journey didn’t know existed. In Artifacts you can toggle on and off if you want to see the code or run the code.
An example of creating a game. Told Claude:
And it created:
I can create a game with from a small paragraph. The issue is, which is a big one. You start playing the game that was just built and it’s not very good at all. Gives you a starting point to build a much better game, or web app. Which can be grueling task. Meaning I can start the project, build a base, add more features and update the design. Run into issues, go through copying and pasting error’s to help Claude on what the issue is. Then you get a “Your message will exceed the length limit for this chat.”. Then you open a new chat, and start all over again. Need to train the chat on what you want and the system specs.
Recently Claude launched with the Max plan that you can enable Claude to search previous chats but it just searches, it doesn’t remember. It helps reference a chat but you have to train Claude again. And in my experience you can create a perfect prompt explaining everything in detail, upload the necessary files required, but it still doesn’t remember everything even during the same chat. If you are building something, don’t have Claude blindly build a script that changes production, WITHOUT reviewing every detail of what it’s doing. I broke production for a while because I trusted Claude to create a migration script from DEV to PROD, of one of my web apps.
Will AI Take Creativity to the Next Level?
AI is reshaping what it means to be creative. For the first time in history, the tools of creation—whether for art, music, writing, or design—are available to almost anyone with an idea. You don’t need years of training or expensive equipment; you only need curiosity and imagination.
This shift levels the playing field. Everyone can now generate, explore, and experiment. But access alone doesn’t guarantee greatness. Just as owning a camera doesn’t make someone a photographer, or having a keyboard doesn’t make someone a novelist, AI doesn’t automatically make someone creative.
What truly matters are the ideas behind the tools. The people who will stand out are those who can take AI outputs and transform them into something meaningful—through vision, taste, and storytelling.
AI doesn’t replace creativity—it amplifies it. And in a world where everyone can generate, the real difference lies in how you imagine, curate, and shape what’s possible.
Have learned a lot about how setting up a webserver using AlmaLinux. The thing that bugs me is most of the burntai.com web apps, are using one configuration file, the main nginx file. For burntai.com its /etc/nginx/conf.d/burntai.com.conf. Even Docker uses it. If it is setup wrong, it breaks everything that uses it, which on burntai.com is about everything. That is what happened when I had Claude run setup scripts and it stripped out everything on the production server. “Your not using SSL, going to take that section out”, but the site relies on SSL.
Need to stop trusting AI all together and review each change to make sure that it doesn’t break the site.
I am still surprised how AI can take an image like, to extract the information from it and tell you what is wrong? And do it really fast. I uploaded 5 images, like the one attached and Claude extracted the information, in less than 5+ seconds and let me knew what was going on.
About Me.
I’ve worked in IT since 1993, starting as a PC enthusiast and growing into a hands-on IT professional. Over the years, I’ve shifted from hardware and troubleshooting into creating code. Now with AI, I’m able to turn ideas into web apps faster than ever—and I love building.
If I see that message one more time, I am going delete everything. I see that message all the time and only maybe once Claude was correct
Troubleshooting
The thing I realized after creating burntai.com with AlmaLinux, and troubleshooting weird issue, “well that should have worked?”, is always blame SELinxux.
This is such a good catch! 🕵️ SELinux is notorious for these “everything looks right but doesn’t work” scenarios. The fact that your file permissions are perfect but the API returns empty data despite the file having content is a classic SELinux symptom.