AI assistant runs two HTTP servers on the same port, modified pages never take effect

Today I had AI help me create a video deck. It wrote the HTML, then used Python to spin up an HTTP server for preview. I asked it to modify the page, so it updated the HTML, and then... started a second HTTP server on the same port!

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Today I had AI help me create a video deck. It wrote the HTML, then used Python to spin up an HTTP server for preview. I asked it to modify the page, so it updated the HTML, and then... started a seco

Title: AI assistant opened two HTTP servers on the same port, and the modified page never takes effect

Windows + git-bash port management issue. Python's HTTP server does not throw an error when the port is occupied, but silently starts another process on the same port. The browser is connected to the first one, and the AI modifies the HTML of the second file. The initial reaction was to think it was a code problem, wasting a lot of time.