Building BurntAI.com with AI: The Back-and-Forth Battle In my first post, I shared how I went from decades in IT to diving headfirst into building BurntAI.com. Now I want to talk about how I’ve been building it — and the challenges that come with working alongside AI as your coding partner.

My Go-To: Claude from Anthropic From the start, Claude has been my main co-developer. I like it because its default style is simple: I ask for something, and it just makes the code. No overexplaining, no “are you sure you want to do that?” — just code.

The process looks like this:

I describe the feature I want.

Claude writes the HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.

I run it.

Something breaks.

I paste the error back in.

Claude fixes it.

It’s a loop that feels like real pair programming — fast, iterative, and creative.

Hitting the Context Limit Wall The big frustration? Claude’s maximum length limit.

I’ll be halfway through solving a complicated bug, deep into a multi-file feature… and suddenly, it’s out of room. Conversation over. No more replies. All the context — gone.

That means I have to:

Start a new chat.

Re-explain the project and the bug.

Paste only the necessary code (to save space).

Hope it picks up where we left off.

Sometimes it does. Sometimes I get a totally different approach that I have to untangle.

Trying Other AI Platforms I’ve also worked with Gemini and Perplexity. They’re smart, but getting them to match Claude’s “just make the code” flow takes careful prompting. Some AI tools want to explain every step in detail. Others like to redesign my feature completely.

They’re great for fresh ideas and code reviews — but when I just need the code, Claude still wins.

Lessons Learned Along the Way AI is an amazing co-developer — but not a perfect one.

Every AI platform has its own “personality.”

Prompt engineering matters just as much as coding skills.

Always save your work — AI’s memory can vanish in an instant.

BurntAI.com is still evolving. I’m adding new features, fixing bugs, and finding more easter eggs to hide. And while AI sometimes feels like an unreliable genius, I wouldn’t have been able to build this site without it.

Jeff