I Spent Two Hours Teaching an AI About My Beetle Before I Touched a Single Bolt
I bought a 1968 Beetle for a thousand bucks. Salvage title. Front end hacked up from an old collision and somebody’s dropped axle. It shows up in my driveway on August 1st. And instead of ordering parts, I spent two hours answering questions from a chatbot. Stay with me here. The problem with AI is that it doesn’t know you If you’ve used ChatGPT or Claude, you know the feeling. You ask it something about your car and it gives you an answer that’s technically fine and completely useless. It explains what a torsion beam is. It suggests you “consult a professional.” It writes like a brochure. ...