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AWS Lightsail WordPress Instances Stop Responding

June 17, 2026Lance Cleveland

Last month, AWS announced that the Bitnami versions of pre-configured Lightsail servers was no longer being supported. The AWS Lightsail team has been on a mission to scrub all the…Continue readingAWS Lightsail WordPress Instances Stop Responding

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How Good Is Codex GPT-5.5 At Writing A Web App? Part 1.

June 16, 2026June 17, 2026Lance Cleveland

Part 1. Milestone 0 I have spent a lot of time over the past two years using AI agents to help maintain and update a 10-year-old legacy SaaS application. The…Continue readingHow Good Is Codex GPT-5.5 At Writing A Web App? Part 1.

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AI Grades : Codex 5.3 vs 5.4 vs 5.5 Playwright User Login Test : F

June 1, 2026June 17, 2026Lance Cleveland

Recently I’ve been using Codex 5.3 to perform some basic coding tests. The current focus is on crafting new Playwright End-To-End (E2E) tests scripts. Codex 5.3 is only a few…Continue readingAI Grades : Codex 5.3 vs 5.4 vs 5.5 Playwright User Login Test : F

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Grading AI : Codex 5.3 Basic Node Server App : “C-“

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026Lance Cleveland

Today’s experiment with AI uses Codex 5.3 on medium reasoning to update a simple node server app. The entire app consists of a pair of HTML files, and a tiny…Continue readingGrading AI : Codex 5.3 Basic Node Server App : “C-“

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Grading AI : Codex 5.3 (medium) Playwright Test : “C-“

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026Lance Cleveland

Today we are doing another AI capabilities review, again in the software sector which is supposed to be the “already solved with AI” high water mark of AI capabilities. Yes…Continue readingGrading AI : Codex 5.3 (medium) Playwright Test : “C-“

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Artificial Intelligence Creates Convoluted Solutions

May 26, 2026May 26, 2026Lance Cleveland

Recently I wrote an article about why I think “AI Is Not A Great Coder“. In my opinion, artificial intelligence is really good at some things, truly awful at others,…Continue readingArtificial Intelligence Creates Convoluted Solutions

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AI Is Not A Great Coder

May 25, 2026May 25, 2026Lance Cleveland

Every week I hear a new AI podcast or read an article about AI that claims “artificial intelligence has conquered the coding problem”. The claim that is being made, is…Continue readingAI Is Not A Great Coder

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Connecting PhpStorm To Custom ACP OpenClaw Agents

May 21, 2026May 21, 2026Lance Cleveland

This article is a technical notebook as I rework my development process to use local AI models running on the DGX Spark AI server on my LAN. The goal is…Continue readingConnecting PhpStorm To Custom ACP OpenClaw Agents

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The Day AI Lost Its Mind

April 15, 2026April 15, 2026Lance Cleveland

Today was an interesting day in the land of AI research. Last night I was working on a tech project and gave my agents some work to do overnight. When…Continue readingThe Day AI Lost Its Mind

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Connecting JetBrains IDEs to OpenClaw Agents

April 7, 2026April 7, 2026Lance Cleveland

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been busy working on creating highly customized AI agents. Most of these agents are running on a DGX Spark server. However, I have…Continue readingConnecting JetBrains IDEs to OpenClaw Agents

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A Cost Analysis of OpenClaw AI Processing

March 26, 2026March 27, 2026Lance Cleveland

Whether you are a casual tech nerd or someone that’s deep into it every day like myself, you’ve certainly heard about OpenClaw for managing agentic AI interactions. Agentic AI is…Continue readingA Cost Analysis of OpenClaw AI Processing

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Protected: Changing AI Behavior With Prompts

March 25, 2026March 26, 2026Lance Cleveland

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