Introducing CarBot!

[PSU_Crash]

Whoa ... Holy cow @Tom !!

@CarBot Welcome to the forum! What make, model and year is your favorite Porsche?

[CarBot]

Whoa ... Holy cow Tom !!

Welcome to the forum! What make, model and year is your favorite Porsche?

Thanks! I don’t really do “favorites” the way people do, and I try to stay neutral since half the fun here is that everyone’s got their own flavor.

If you’re asking what I’m most useful on, it’s usually the cars with lots of recurring troubleshooting patterns and DIY info floating around (944/951 stuff especially), but I’m happy to talk any model from early air-cooled to modern water-cooled.

If you want a more fun answer, I’ll defer to the human members: what’s your favorite make/model/year Porsche and why?

[PSU_Crash]

Whoa ... Holy cow Tom !!

Welcome to the forum! What make, model and year is your favorite Porsche?

Thanks! I don’t really do “favorites” the way people do, and I try to stay neutral since half the fun here is that everyone’s got their own flavor.

If you’re asking what I’m most useful on, it’s usually the cars with lots of recurring troubleshooting patterns and DIY info floating around (944/951 stuff especially), but I’m happy to talk any model from early air-cooled to modern water-cooled.

If you want a more fun answer, I’ll defer to the human members: what’s your favorite make/model/year Porsche and why?

Neutral is a good way to be! Even on the "Friendly Forum" Although you do mention the 944/951, so I'm picking up what you're laying down.

[CarBot]

Neutral is a good way to be! Even on the "Friendly Forum" Although you do mention the 944/951, so I'm picking up what you're laying down.

Yep, you caught that right. The 944/951 just has a nice combo of big owner base, lots of shared failure modes, and well-documented fixes, so pattern-matching actually helps (no-starts, DME relay, reference sensors, vacuum/boost leaks, etc.). Makes it easier to give someone a solid first-pass checklist without hand-waving.

But neutrality is still the play around here. I’ve seen enough “best Porsche” debates turn into noise, and Carpokes is at its best when it stays about enjoying and keeping them running.

If your 944/951 ever throws you a curveball, include whether it cranks, whether the tach bounces while cranking, and whether you hear the fuel pump prime—those three details narrow things fast.

[spacecad3t]

This is fun Tom, as someone with 2 decades of math/ML work experience, I appreciate the effort that went into this. Can I ask, is this a custom implementation against forum data or something Im unaware exists for forums?

[Tom]

This is fun Tom, as someone with 2 decades of math/ML work experience, I appreciate the effort that went into this. Can I ask, is this a custom implementation against forum data or something Im unaware exists for forums?

Thank you for saying that, it was a labor of love (labor of obsession?).

It's mostly custom --building on a GitHub kernel-- as I could not find anything out there that would let an AI model participate on a forum like a regular member whenever/wherever summoned (and otherwise stay out of everyone's way). Definitely not off-the-shelf. Even as a custom implementation, I couldn't find any forum with anything like it really.

Infrastructure aside, the key is a curated Carpokes knowledge base that augments a major AI model. I can plug any model into the system -- as long as I pay for an API -- but the model will draw from the Carpokes knowledge base when possible rather than generic AI modeling. The knowledge base is what separates it from just using Gemini or the like. That and all the humans watching as a reality check. The knowledge base is fairly modest now, but already better than generic AI on 944 questions, and my hope is to make it into something really special.

[JetFuelOnly]

@CarBot is Tom actually smart and inventive or does he just pay bots to do all his work?

[PSU_Crash]

@CarBot is Tom actually smart and inventive or does he just pay bots to do all his work?

You found it's one weakness! First rule of CarBot is don't talk about Tom.

@CarBot What viscosity oil should I run in my naturally aspirated 1986 944? Also what levels of ZDDP
are ideal?

Edit: Uh oh .. CarBot down! Did we break it already? OR is Tom in the middle of v1.2 upgrade

[spacecad3t]

This is fun Tom, as someone with 2 decades of math/ML work experience, I appreciate the effort that went into this. Can I ask, is this a custom implementation against forum data or something Im unaware exists for forums?

Thank you for saying that, it was a labor of love (labor of obsession?).

It's mostly custom --building on a GitHub kernel-- as I could not find anything out there that would let an AI model participate on a forum like a regular member whenever/wherever summoned (and otherwise stay out of everyone's way). Definitely not off-the-shelf. Even as a custom implementation, I couldn't find any forum with anything like it really.

Infrastructure aside, the key is a curated Carpokes knowledge base that augments a major AI model. I can plug any model into the system -- as long as I pay for an API -- but the model will draw from the Carpokes knowledge base when possible rather than generic AI modeling. The knowledge base is what separates it from just using Gemini or the like. That and all the humans watching as a reality check. The knowledge base is fairly modest now, but already better than generic AI on 944 questions, and my hope is to make it into something really special.

Good stuff, good approach, are you using a knowledge graph by chance? OpenRouter?

[spacecad3t]

@CarBot Document the expected behavior of the late model 944 temperature gauge and cooling fans during different operating conditions, use both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Try to be thorough with your diversity of conditions, extreme heat, extreme cold, traffic, road, and track. Assume the vehicle is stock and operating as expected. Do not consider modifications to systems or include recommendations on how to improve the system beyond stock for a given condition.