revtothelimit - motorbike forum

I buy a battery for my vfr, it’s the one listed so should fit, bought a Yuasa so it should be good. Doesn’t even vaguely fit, it’s way too tall for the seat to fit, loose in the holder and the terminals are the wrong way round. I google it on owners forum expecting to find loads of owners complaining that the specified battery doesn’t fit and nothing. I fire up Claude and it tells me the battery should fit, it’s the right size and specification. I refute this and it gives me the dimensions and they match the battery but it doesn’t fit, not even close. It asks me if I’m sure I have the right battery ytz14s and I check and it is and it tells me that it should fit. It then says can I take a photo of the battery in place and it’ll take a look. I do that and upload it and tells me that I’ve mistakenly installed it with the top of the battery upwards rather than install it on its side as it should be. I try that and it fits perfectly and the terminals line up.

I’ll blame the heat.

In work there is a big push to embrace AI and we were getting a briefing on Claude a couple of weeks ago.

The in house version of chat gpt was described as a switched on high school kid where Claude can be described as the PhD student, and those that know how to use AI properly really like it.

I think it’s absolutely unbelievable. Genuinely useful both in work, holiday planning and now in making me look a fool.

I've used it a few times and it can be both brilliant and notably stupid. Brilliant: I have a compressor that was misbehaving and after detailing the symptoms it correctly identified the fault. It was also complimentary when I fixed the faulty valve rather than buying a new one!

Stupid: I needed to compress the shock absorber spring on the engine mainshaft of an elderly BSA. It told me to use a threaded bar up the middle of the spring. Yes, but there happens to be a crankshaft in the way........

It’s not infallible. I just correct it when it’s clearly wrong and off we go again. Another simple use case I just used it for was to identify a bulb by showing it a picture. Huge time saver, especially in this case where it’s a non standard headlight.