AI and the art of motocycle maintenance

[iansoady]

Well compressor actually. I have an old SGS compressor that I use rarely. Switched it on the other day and it kept blowing air out. I decided it was the switch / valve block which was only £10 from ebay so tried that - no improvement.

So in desperation I asked Claude (AI from Anthropic who I like as they won't help trump do illegal stuff).

Claude walked me through everything and between us we came up with the answer - which cost nothing, the way I like it.

The transcript is here for anyone interested:

https://www.iansoady.org.uk/claude/Conv ... Claude.htm

[DefTrap]

Yeah, I use it all the time for car fault diagnosis stuff, surprisingly good, saves a lot of faffing. Also pretty accurate for looking up part numbers.

[Skub]

How does it fare with,"there's a noise coming from the front of my car"?

[DefTrap]

How does it fare with,"there's a noise coming from the front of my car"?

Predictably - rubbish in = rubbish out - but it'll give you the most likely causes, and it will be quite insistent over the most common causes given the information you have submitted.

[Skub]

Noted.

[mangocrazy]

I've been agonising over an intractable problem with indicators on a bike I want to sell, and decided to give Claude AI a go. I wasn't expecting much, but the responses I got were far better than I could have imagined. It's opened up another avenue of diagnosis that I was completely unaware of, so full marks to Claude...

[iansoady]

I was very sceptical originally but have been very impressed. Experiences will of course vary.....

You may like to post the conversation as I did so people can see the process.

[mangocrazy]

I don't have a website to host it on, and not sure if I can just post a Word transcript of the conversation up here...? On second thoughts I'll just cut and paste the transcript into the thread that relates to the problem, and link here.