I’m both excited and relieved to share this report after MANY hours spent with Claude at my MacOS terminal command line: 6,390 blog posts shared between 2003 and 2026 have now been officially archived as “static posts” on my Moving at the Speed of Creativity blog.
Previously, this site ran WordPress, but due to the realities of our “modern age of AI cyberwarfare” referenced in last night’s post on our family learning blog, “Digitally Resurrecting Family Audio Memories,” I’ve moved this website (my largest by far in terms of posts and Internet traffic) into a form which presents a much smaller, ‘potential attack surface’ for possible bad actors and threat actors: static HTML pages. (No PHP or mySQL, which both present opportunities for code injection hacks.) I’ve also successfully edited / repaired / fixed RSS / XML files for 481 podcast episodes, which over time had not all worked. I did most of this with Claude’s “Sonnet 5.0 High” and “Sonnet 5.5 High” models.
This post will not be an attempt at full documentation of my current web host migration. Some of that journey is included in my June 2026 post, “Archive WordPress with HTTrack.” What I do want to share here tonight are two big ideas:
It is vital we each attend to potential cybersecurity threats which can affect our personal as well as professional lives.
AI platforms can be game changers for coding and IT challenges like this, which involve complicated, command line troubleshooting, debugging and digital repair.
About P(doom)
When I say to you, “The chances of an AI-assisted or an AI-initiated cyberattack against critical infrastructure you rely on daily is more realistic today than ever,” what do you do in response if you choose to believe me? The AI hype cycle is all around us in the news, and it’s almost impossible to know what to do with frequent claims by smart officials about P(doom): That “rogue AI may destroy the world.” We talk about this frequently on the “EdTech Situation Room” podcast I co-host with Jason Neiffer, and we definitely did in our last episode on September 17th.
I do have some ideas about how to respond to P(doom), and two of them involve making reasonable grid-down preparations as well as using + insuring loved ones in your life use a password manager with good password hygene habits.
How Powerful Are AI Coding Assistants?
I’m really struggling with the words to adequately explain what I’ve been DOING as well as experiencing with assistance from Claude AI the past few weeks, in migrating my websites to a new web host. Perhaps a few screenshots will help.
In tonight’s work migrating my “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” website and backend database over to my new web host, Claude allowed me to do so much more than I EVER could have done by myself, unassisted. Claude has been thorough, detailed / precise, and technically advanced. Literally mind blowing, because I know my own IT capabilities as well as limitations better than anyone… And this work has FAR exceeded them. Claude has made mistakes, but ‘owned up to them.’ And all this work has been done within a large / now extensive “Claude Project,” which I spent a LOT of time “training” with custom instructions built over many interactive conversations.
Yes, Claude “Knows Me” Well Now…
The many HOURS Claude and I have interacted around this project have presented interesting interactions which certainly ‘feel’ anthropomorphic. I know Claude is an algorithm and not sentient, but the ways Claude now “knows me” and verbally (via text) interacts with me as well as even tries to “look out for me” (not let me work too late) are somewhat arresting… and definitely attention getting.
In addition to genuinely collaborating / troubleshooting / addressing all the challenges the migration of 38 different websites to a new web host presents, Claude and I have also exchanged some compliments and text exchanges which feel / appear very human-like. I KNOW: They are not. But they FEEL and ‘read’ that way.
It’s an Iterative Process
Like my own journey as a blogger / podcaster / content creator (which started digitally circa 1995) as well as website designer and administrator, my journey using AI tools has been interative and cumulative. That’s why I started my website, “Learning AI with Wes Fryer” a few years ago, to collect / aggregate my posts and resources about AI, to share my own journey and hopefully help others interested in learning similar things.
Tonight, I feel happy about this milestone in my latest “web host migration” challenge, but also AMAZED. There is NO WAY I could have done 95% of what I’ve done successfully the past couple weeks without AI and Claude’s help.
That’s TRANSFORMATIVE work enabled by AI.
AI Attribution: I did not use any AI tools to draft or edit this article. I did, however, use Claude AI to compose the image prompt and Gemini AI to co-create the cartoon-style image I used in the article and as a post thumbnail.