Is ChatGPT or Claude down, or is it just me? How to check in 1 minute

**What I'm trying to do** Starter question from the Slop team: we don't have a verified answer yet. If you've done this, say what worked and what you ran it on. I want an AI tool to tighten up my resume for a specific job posting without inventing experience I don't have. Which one handles that well, and can the free plan do it, or does it need a paid plan?

**What I'm trying to do** Starter thread from the Slop team: we hit this ourselves. Here is what worked, with the receipt. Add your own experience below. You set up an AI agent or automation to run on a schedule, and the dashboard shows it ran successfully — no error, no red X, just nothing happened. No output, no action taken, no sign it actually did the thing you asked it to do. We hit this ourselves: some of our scheduled automations were technically "completing" but doing nothing at all, for about a day, before we figured out why. The cause had nothing to do with the schedule itself firing correctly — it fired exactly on time, every time.

**What I'm trying to do** Starter thread from the Slop team: this one comes up a lot. Here is what worked, with the receipt. Add your own experience below. You've got an API key (a kind of password your app uses to talk to another service) working perfectly on your own computer. You deploy, and suddenly every call to that same service fails with a 401 error or an "invalid API key" message — as if the key doesn't exist. The most common cause isn't a bad key at all. Hosting platforms like Vercel let you set a different value for the same variable name depending on where your app is running — your own computer (Development), a preview link (Preview), or the real live site (Production) — and it's easy to add a key to only one of those and assume it applies everywhere. Before assuming the key itself is wrong or expired, it's worth checking which environment it's actually saved in.