I worked with a guy who's 17 yo son tried changing his own oil and I got day by day updates of how it went.
>Drains oil from pan. >Attempts to remove oil filter, Breaks the oil pressor sensor off the engine. >RTV's sensor back into place >Puts fresh oil back in, gives up on oil filter because its too tight to remove. >Gets a few miles down the road and into town before oil sprays exhaust manifold and makes massive smoke screen, Fire department called, Car towed home and threatened with fine for leaking oil everywhere. >Buys new oil pressure sensor and watches a youtube video about how to replace it. >Cross threads new oil pressure sensor. >Car now Leaks oil and goes into limp mode now. >Decides oil pan needs to be removed to better reach the oil pressure sensor. >"Grabs ugga dugga, Man these bolts holding the oil pan in are tight" >Ends up snapping several bolts because righty tighty >For some reason decides to cut serpentine belt. >They eventually gave up and had it towed to a shop. Ended up getting charged a bit over $1500. to un-frick the car.
>They eventually gave up
That's the only real mistake i see here. You learn from mistakes. Some people are more moronic than others and do less research so everything takes a little longer until they start to be productive instead of fricking things up. Especially if you have noone experienced around to warn you when you are about to frick things up.Where was his father?
I lost 3 fingers feeding a fricked piece of wood through a mite saw unsupervised on a house build as an apprentice carpenter. Got $200k in workers comp tho.
Oh nice, that makes sense given the texture on the surface. Probably a autistic question, but have you noticed any impact to fuel economy with the new paint? The added texture should introduce some drag but dunno if the effect would be negligible or not, or if you've noticed any impact after painting.
It got 13 mpg before I did it, and it's a pretty tired engine at 200,006 miles, so I haven't. My wife has clipped it twice and besides buffing a scuff out of her car there is absolutely zero damage or wear from that or scuffing it in the woods when I have time to go there.
I lost 3 fingers feeding a fricked piece of wood through a mite saw unsupervised on a house build as an apprentice carpenter. Got $200k in workers comp tho.
I would probably cut of 2 fingers for 133k. 3 is a bit too much tho.
Golf balls have a very specifically Engineered surface that works slightly better than perfectly smooth. Some spray on bed liner will not match this. That being said it's a jeep, complaining about the aerodynamics of the paint is like complaining about the bedding in a Vietnam pow camp.
>Golf balls fly further with textured surface.
Yes, but they would fly even further with a smooth surface and a tear drop shape. The only reason why dimpels are used on a golf bal is because it needs to be round. Drop this constraint and superior aerodynamic solutions exist. Race cars, planes, trains, fast animals, whatever don't have dimples.
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Not entirely true, many planes feature turbulence inducing devices on their wings. However you are correct the dimples are only needed be cause of the shape constraint
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Well, in a way devices like vortex generators are because of constraints as well. Larger aspect ratio wings would be better but that hurts cruising speed.
Cuz he used bedliner and it literally looks like this. Tropicana makes orange juice. For those of us old enough to remember the commercials we told him to replace his antenna with one of these bad ass straws.
I sold my YJ a few years ago and I kind of wish I'd kept it. Yours is badass. Sold my 3rd gen a few weeks ago after I did the birfields in my 80. Hands down the best vehicle I've ever owned, but rust was starting to get mine.
[...] >orangejuice-mobile
That's incredibly based, why would you cry
Because they were mean. Honestly though, it turned out exactly like I wanted and for people who want low maintenance paint on something that's for all intents and purposes, a beater, I would advocate 100%. Total cost was like $400 or something.
I did the "Paint" on my truck too, but the less said about that the better.
>try to change oil pump >break bolt for thermostat housing after removing the front differential and water pump and making a huge mess with coolant >spend an entire day trying to get bolt out >can't do shit because not enough space between radiator and water pump >frick it, move on to crankshaft bolt >bought two special tools for this >fricking thing doesn't budge, not enough dough for a new torque wrench that will fit or a torch >give up >go to put differential back on >it won't fit and is way too heavy, my buddy's help is worthless >strap it into my bed and call a tow truck >tow truck destroys my cv axles while pulling it onto the flatbed
And this is the closest I've ever been to actual suicide
> change brake disc on motorcycle I just bought > calliper comes off in an 80mph turn on the busiest interchange in the country > dangles from the cable and would have killed me instantly would it have gotten between the spooks
>renovating my 1st floor apartment (2 family house, I was living with my sister upstairs until I eventually move downstairs) >want to swap out the old bathroom faucet >both water shutoffs are stuck open >"I'll cut the pipes and put new sharkbite quarter turns on it" >go to basement and turn off water to the bathroom >cut off the stuck shutoffs >go to put sharkbites on them, realize there's not a lot of pipe left >could still put the sharkbites on but might not have enough clearance behind the valve to remove them if I had to >look up how to install a compression valve >"given how much pipe is left this looks like the better option" >put compression valve on >it slowly leaks >"why is it leaking" >a youtube video says not to tighten too much or you'll warp the pipe and cause a leak >remove compression valve >pipe is fine >"maybe i should tighten it less?" >tighten it less >fricking valve blows off the instant i turn the water back on >turn water off >dry the bathroom >put valve on, tightening it a little more >valve stays on but still leaks >"what if i put pipe dope all around the fricking thing" >it stops leaking >I check it every day for a month, no leaks >still renovating the apartment so I'm living upstairs >sister wakes me up at 5am telling me the basement is flooded >cold water compression valve blew off in the middle of the night and flooded half the apartment and the whole basement for hours until it was 6 inches deep >run to turn off water to whole house cause I didn't know what the frick happened yet >open basement drain >call a plumber, he comes over and tells me I was supposed to crank the shit out of them until they warp the pipe
fricking youtube flooded my house
You can learn a lot on YouTube but yeah there are some really stupid people on there. I think its like the game telephone but with permanently online people acting like they know what they are doing.
>call a plumber, he comes over and tells me I was supposed to crank the shit out of them until they warp the pipe
I could never bring myself to leave them loose because I was afraid to have them blow off. Thank you for validating my fears.
other than putting the valves on wrong, I should have kept the water off to the bathroom until I actually moved, really didn't need the water on and I would have heard it blow off had I been living on that floor.
I'll post other mistakes I've made in my renovations as I think of them >want to install a simple backsplash for behind the stove >buy a 3'x3' copper sheet metal from home depot >need to make several cuts to fit the dimensions of the cabinets, counters, mounted microwave, and the stove gap >"measure twice, cut once" >realized one of my measurements was wrong, redraw the line and cross out the wrong one >somehow i end up cutting the line i crossed out >it was a "i cut too much", otherwise i could just make another cut >$50 down the drain i gotta do the whole fricking thing again
got it on the 2nd attempt though
what made that backsplash especially tricky was, I intentionally drew the lines on the side that would be facing the wall so you couldn't see them, so every measurement had to be mirrored on the sheet metal, rather than it being exactly the same.
I guess I could have just cleaned the marker off with alchohol but I didn't think of that until just now.
This happened to me while I was driving on the highway. Caliper shook loose and was getting caught between the rotor and the wheel, left big gouges in the aluminum and locked up the wheel each time it happened. Luckily it happened 1000ft infront of a rest stop.
This happened to me on my truck. >doing 70 down highway >hear *blink tink tink* >see a small object bounce from under my truck in mirror >every bump i hear a loud thunk
Shit just fell off. Thankfully it was made in a way that even loose the brakes worked fine. Still scary as shit though.
>purchase new house >water heater is busted >figure i can learn to fix a gas heater despite having no experience >replace pilot lighting system >easy enough >heater still doesn't work >figure controller needs to be replaced >go through all the effort to remove controller >start unscrewing >apparently clicking around in the youtube video caused me to miss the part where they say "there is water in the heater to drain even if the water is shut off" >controller shoots off and spews water all over the basement >pressure catches me off guard and knocks me over >i get soaked
did you end up just buying a new one like a sane person?
https://i.imgur.com/wPJCqpY.jpg
Cuz he used bedliner and it literally looks like this. Tropicana makes orange juice. For those of us old enough to remember the commercials we told him to replace his antenna with one of these bad ass straws.
>Color of an orange >Texture of an orange
I'm not sure if that's hilariously based or you're a moron.
>Nonchalantly torquing oil check bolt to spec >"Hmm, been going a while for 20nm, something wrong?" >"Nah give it one last turn even though it feels loose" >Snap >Squash washer on oil check bolt... >"Frick, guess I'd better try and get the sheared bolt out." >Tries drilling it out >Drill bit goes snap
Haven't touched that project since
>Decide to fix few rust holes in my old shitbox >Never did any manual work with cars, or much of DIY at all for that matter >Watch few tutorials on youtube, looks easy enough >Get tools, sander, putty, painting tape etc >decide against removing black plastic element near the hole because the screw holding the whole thing together is probably rusted too and im unlikely ill be able to mount it back >Cant get to certain places with sander, sanding paper keeps getting used up and i dont have the "brick" for sanding like i saw people use on youtube, i only have round disc for sander that doesnt work that well >Apply putty with hardener and fiberglass, sand it again. Same story, cant sand it so that it forms perfectly smooth surface >Pain the whole thing, paint leaks out to the plastic element
Pic. related
For first try id say strong 4/10. Could be much worse
Was going to change the bathroom sink for something nicer for wife. I'm home alone. Think about turning off water but figure I'll close the stop wieners and see if they leak any when I take off hoses. I turn one half way and the entire valve and the little copper stub it's compressed onto blow off. I'm crouched in the floor mouth agape getting blasted with full water pressure out of half inch pipe. Slam my palm over hole and get it sealed by leaning my body weight into it. It's cutting the heel of my hand but the water stopped. No cell phone on me. It's in other room charging. I crouch like this for 10 minutes until adrenaline dump subsides. Plan how I'm going to get water turned off. Didn't find the key before I started. Map out my run and bolt for the laundry, grab mop and broom, bucket, and phone. Really cut palm sealing pipe again. Have to call coworker and have him bring key and turn it off. I'm stuck under sink with hand bleeding for an hour waiting for coworker to show up. Have to bail water out of sink stand that is swelling up and disintegrating and mop all floors since gallons of water blew out while I was getting phone and bucket
>Make a quick change to CNC mill program to make it faster >My dumb brain forgets some of it is programmed in incremental instead of absolute coordinates >Realize it's going to crash into the fixture about a half-second before it does, too late.
At least it wasn't a rapid move, only SS at aluminum speeds so nothing blew up.
I’m an electrician, I’ve had to go and unfrick home wiring attempts plenty of times. Usually the wife calls, I get there and she will berate her husband in front of me.
Some people have no idea. I’ve seen men not knowing how to use a screw driver, let alone a fricking hammer. How do these people function?
>Ask ChatGPT for a soap recipe with the select ingredients I have >I follow it without bothering to check the ratios >Realize it told me to put 4x as much oil as I'm supposed to >Spend one hour mixing more lye in at wrong temperatures and breathing in fumes desperately trying to save my batch of $40 worth of materials >Still waiting for the soap to harden
Sometimes it can solve new problems using info from old problems, but sometimes it makes mistakes that seem obvious to humans like that anon mentioned. It's improving at an... interesting pace, though. Especially considering chatgpt is far from the only cutting edge "AI" out there and it's not even supposed to write recipes or do coding or math, so it's interesting that it can do that shit whatsoever. It was only ever meant for general conversations.
I worked with a guy who's 17 yo son tried changing his own oil and I got day by day updates of how it went.
>Drains oil from pan.
>Attempts to remove oil filter, Breaks the oil pressor sensor off the engine.
>RTV's sensor back into place
>Puts fresh oil back in, gives up on oil filter because its too tight to remove.
>Gets a few miles down the road and into town before oil sprays exhaust manifold and makes massive smoke screen, Fire department called, Car towed home and threatened with fine for leaking oil everywhere.
>Buys new oil pressure sensor and watches a youtube video about how to replace it.
>Cross threads new oil pressure sensor.
>Car now Leaks oil and goes into limp mode now.
>Decides oil pan needs to be removed to better reach the oil pressure sensor.
>"Grabs ugga dugga, Man these bolts holding the oil pan in are tight"
>Ends up snapping several bolts because righty tighty
>For some reason decides to cut serpentine belt.
>They eventually gave up and had it towed to a shop. Ended up getting charged a bit over $1500. to un-frick the car.
>They eventually gave up
That's the only real mistake i see here. You learn from mistakes. Some people are more moronic than others and do less research so everything takes a little longer until they start to be productive instead of fricking things up. Especially if you have noone experienced around to warn you when you are about to frick things up.Where was his father?
Man I was moronic with cars at 16 but this is another level, but yeah you learn from mistakes you dont give up
>>For some reason decides to cut serpentine belt.
Who failed worse, the son for being a tard or the dad for allowing his son to be a tard?
It's good parenting to let your children make mistakes
I lost 3 fingers feeding a fricked piece of wood through a mite saw unsupervised on a house build as an apprentice carpenter. Got $200k in workers comp tho.
Was it worth it?
Yeah I actually blackmailed my boss into having sex with me besides getting the workers comp
...female boss? Or...
Nope
Are you a homosexual?
Rude.
Got drunk for a weekend and my Jeep was orange on monday.
Looks good anon
Thanks, it's actually tinted Monstaliner. I didn't trust myself to paint with paint when I did this.
>"You have no idea how bad things really are"
Oh nice, that makes sense given the texture on the surface. Probably a autistic question, but have you noticed any impact to fuel economy with the new paint? The added texture should introduce some drag but dunno if the effect would be negligible or not, or if you've noticed any impact after painting.
It got 13 mpg before I did it, and it's a pretty tired engine at 200,006 miles, so I haven't. My wife has clipped it twice and besides buffing a scuff out of her car there is absolutely zero damage or wear from that or scuffing it in the woods when I have time to go there.
It’s a Jeep man. It’s already massively non aerodynamic. A little bit of air friction isn’t going to matter.
Golf balls fly further with textured surface.
I would probably cut of 2 fingers for 133k. 3 is a bit too much tho.
Golf balls have a very specifically Engineered surface that works slightly better than perfectly smooth. Some spray on bed liner will not match this. That being said it's a jeep, complaining about the aerodynamics of the paint is like complaining about the bedding in a Vietnam pow camp.
>Golf balls fly further with textured surface.
Yes, but they would fly even further with a smooth surface and a tear drop shape. The only reason why dimpels are used on a golf bal is because it needs to be round. Drop this constraint and superior aerodynamic solutions exist. Race cars, planes, trains, fast animals, whatever don't have dimples.
Not entirely true, many planes feature turbulence inducing devices on their wings. However you are correct the dimples are only needed be cause of the shape constraint
Well, in a way devices like vortex generators are because of constraints as well. Larger aspect ratio wings would be better but that hurts cruising speed.
I cut fingers off for $62k a year + some money for college
that's not a drunk paint job anon. pic related is drunk paint job.
Is that orange rhino liner??
Monstaliner, but yeah. It's amazingly forgiving to damage and can be sprayed with a schutz gun rather than typical painting equipment.
Orange peel on orange, very tasteful
Didn't you have a green CJ? Or is this the same car?
Looks really good.
Different one, but that paint job is made of actual paint.
They called me Tropicana in PrepHole and I cried and left.
They both look great.
what's a tropicana?
tropicana brand orange juice colors are orange and green so he probably posted a pic with his orange and green jeeps next to each other
Cuz he used bedliner and it literally looks like this. Tropicana makes orange juice. For those of us old enough to remember the commercials we told him to replace his antenna with one of these bad ass straws.
>orangejuice-mobile
That's incredibly based, why would you cry
Based Jeep and Toyota enjoyer
I sold my YJ a few years ago and I kind of wish I'd kept it. Yours is badass. Sold my 3rd gen a few weeks ago after I did the birfields in my 80. Hands down the best vehicle I've ever owned, but rust was starting to get mine.
Because they were mean. Honestly though, it turned out exactly like I wanted and for people who want low maintenance paint on something that's for all intents and purposes, a beater, I would advocate 100%. Total cost was like $400 or something.
I did the "Paint" on my truck too, but the less said about that the better.
What springs are you using on the yj?
>try to change oil pump
>break bolt for thermostat housing after removing the front differential and water pump and making a huge mess with coolant
>spend an entire day trying to get bolt out
>can't do shit because not enough space between radiator and water pump
>frick it, move on to crankshaft bolt
>bought two special tools for this
>fricking thing doesn't budge, not enough dough for a new torque wrench that will fit or a torch
>give up
>go to put differential back on
>it won't fit and is way too heavy, my buddy's help is worthless
>strap it into my bed and call a tow truck
>tow truck destroys my cv axles while pulling it onto the flatbed
And this is the closest I've ever been to actual suicide
> change brake disc on motorcycle I just bought
> calliper comes off in an 80mph turn on the busiest interchange in the country
> dangles from the cable and would have killed me instantly would it have gotten between the spooks
Something about the idea of instant messy death really cracks me up. Like a psychopathic fast crash.
> would have killed me instantly would it gotten between the spooks
They prefer “people of color” now but you are right. Around blacks never relax.
Put the battery in my car backwards and burnt the alternator
Luckily found a spare alternator for 30€
>glue/epoxy/paint/poly/cement isn’t all the way cured
Gayyy
I guess I’ll pull it apart and do it all again.
>renovating my 1st floor apartment (2 family house, I was living with my sister upstairs until I eventually move downstairs)
>want to swap out the old bathroom faucet
>both water shutoffs are stuck open
>"I'll cut the pipes and put new sharkbite quarter turns on it"
>go to basement and turn off water to the bathroom
>cut off the stuck shutoffs
>go to put sharkbites on them, realize there's not a lot of pipe left
>could still put the sharkbites on but might not have enough clearance behind the valve to remove them if I had to
>look up how to install a compression valve
>"given how much pipe is left this looks like the better option"
>put compression valve on
>it slowly leaks
>"why is it leaking"
>a youtube video says not to tighten too much or you'll warp the pipe and cause a leak
>remove compression valve
>pipe is fine
>"maybe i should tighten it less?"
>tighten it less
>fricking valve blows off the instant i turn the water back on
>turn water off
>dry the bathroom
>put valve on, tightening it a little more
>valve stays on but still leaks
>"what if i put pipe dope all around the fricking thing"
>it stops leaking
>I check it every day for a month, no leaks
>still renovating the apartment so I'm living upstairs
>sister wakes me up at 5am telling me the basement is flooded
>cold water compression valve blew off in the middle of the night and flooded half the apartment and the whole basement for hours until it was 6 inches deep
>run to turn off water to whole house cause I didn't know what the frick happened yet
>open basement drain
>call a plumber, he comes over and tells me I was supposed to crank the shit out of them until they warp the pipe
fricking youtube flooded my house
You can learn a lot on YouTube but yeah there are some really stupid people on there. I think its like the game telephone but with permanently online people acting like they know what they are doing.
>call a plumber, he comes over and tells me I was supposed to crank the shit out of them until they warp the pipe
I could never bring myself to leave them loose because I was afraid to have them blow off. Thank you for validating my fears.
miraculously the total damage was less than $1000
even the hardwood floors I had refinished 2 months prior were still good, 100 year old hardwood
other than putting the valves on wrong, I should have kept the water off to the bathroom until I actually moved, really didn't need the water on and I would have heard it blow off had I been living on that floor.
I'll post other mistakes I've made in my renovations as I think of them
>want to install a simple backsplash for behind the stove
>buy a 3'x3' copper sheet metal from home depot
>need to make several cuts to fit the dimensions of the cabinets, counters, mounted microwave, and the stove gap
>"measure twice, cut once"
>realized one of my measurements was wrong, redraw the line and cross out the wrong one
>somehow i end up cutting the line i crossed out
>it was a "i cut too much", otherwise i could just make another cut
>$50 down the drain i gotta do the whole fricking thing again
got it on the 2nd attempt though
what made that backsplash especially tricky was, I intentionally drew the lines on the side that would be facing the wall so you couldn't see them, so every measurement had to be mirrored on the sheet metal, rather than it being exactly the same.
I guess I could have just cleaned the marker off with alchohol but I didn't think of that until just now.
to wipe oil pan drain hole with a paper towel
so like... you're actually supposed to do that?
Grit between the mating surface of the pan and the mating surface of the bolt can allow weeping of the oil.
well good this my dipstick is sealed shut and I can't check oil levels
>tfw caliper bolt walked out
I triple check those c**ts now
This happened to me while I was driving on the highway. Caliper shook loose and was getting caught between the rotor and the wheel, left big gouges in the aluminum and locked up the wheel each time it happened. Luckily it happened 1000ft infront of a rest stop.
They should probably be safety wired.
This happened to me on my truck.
>doing 70 down highway
>hear *blink tink tink*
>see a small object bounce from under my truck in mirror
>every bump i hear a loud thunk
Shit just fell off. Thankfully it was made in a way that even loose the brakes worked fine. Still scary as shit though.
Come to the Northeast, we have a natural safety mechanism for that, it's called "rust with the force of a thousand suns".
>purchase new house
>water heater is busted
>figure i can learn to fix a gas heater despite having no experience
>replace pilot lighting system
>easy enough
>heater still doesn't work
>figure controller needs to be replaced
>go through all the effort to remove controller
>start unscrewing
>apparently clicking around in the youtube video caused me to miss the part where they say "there is water in the heater to drain even if the water is shut off"
>controller shoots off and spews water all over the basement
>pressure catches me off guard and knocks me over
>i get soaked
you didnt know there would be water in a water heater? what else did you think the great big tank was for
I knew there was water there, but i didn't know it was behind the controller and therefore needed to be drained before the controller could be removed
did you end up just buying a new one like a sane person?
>Color of an orange
>Texture of an orange
I'm not sure if that's hilariously based or you're a moron.
nope, once the controller was fixed then I got the heater working. its been good for 2 months now
Meh, all's well that ends well. Pretty good, I'd have just gone to lowe's and said frick it.
>Nonchalantly torquing oil check bolt to spec
>"Hmm, been going a while for 20nm, something wrong?"
>"Nah give it one last turn even though it feels loose"
>Snap
>Squash washer on oil check bolt...
>"Frick, guess I'd better try and get the sheared bolt out."
>Tries drilling it out
>Drill bit goes snap
Haven't touched that project since
>Decide to fix few rust holes in my old shitbox
>Never did any manual work with cars, or much of DIY at all for that matter
>Watch few tutorials on youtube, looks easy enough
>Get tools, sander, putty, painting tape etc
>decide against removing black plastic element near the hole because the screw holding the whole thing together is probably rusted too and im unlikely ill be able to mount it back
>Cant get to certain places with sander, sanding paper keeps getting used up and i dont have the "brick" for sanding like i saw people use on youtube, i only have round disc for sander that doesnt work that well
>Apply putty with hardener and fiberglass, sand it again. Same story, cant sand it so that it forms perfectly smooth surface
>Pain the whole thing, paint leaks out to the plastic element
Pic. related
For first try id say strong 4/10. Could be much worse
Looks bad, but then again for controlling the rust that is a 10/10 effort.
Yeah, could havd been a lot worse
At least you did something, its better.
Thank you, tune in next week when i will try to fix up straight up rust hole in my rustbucket.
Was going to change the bathroom sink for something nicer for wife. I'm home alone. Think about turning off water but figure I'll close the stop wieners and see if they leak any when I take off hoses. I turn one half way and the entire valve and the little copper stub it's compressed onto blow off. I'm crouched in the floor mouth agape getting blasted with full water pressure out of half inch pipe. Slam my palm over hole and get it sealed by leaning my body weight into it. It's cutting the heel of my hand but the water stopped. No cell phone on me. It's in other room charging. I crouch like this for 10 minutes until adrenaline dump subsides. Plan how I'm going to get water turned off. Didn't find the key before I started. Map out my run and bolt for the laundry, grab mop and broom, bucket, and phone. Really cut palm sealing pipe again. Have to call coworker and have him bring key and turn it off. I'm stuck under sink with hand bleeding for an hour waiting for coworker to show up. Have to bail water out of sink stand that is swelling up and disintegrating and mop all floors since gallons of water blew out while I was getting phone and bucket
All because you were too lazy to turn off the water
>Make a quick change to CNC mill program to make it faster
>My dumb brain forgets some of it is programmed in incremental instead of absolute coordinates
>Realize it's going to crash into the fixture about a half-second before it does, too late.
At least it wasn't a rapid move, only SS at aluminum speeds so nothing blew up.
I don’t wipe it. I just flip the crush washer and tighten the nut back up.
Anyone that works in mechanical for a trade thinks all these things are mediocre and not worth discussing.
That is the most jiffy lube zoomer employee speak I've ever heard. And that mentality will keep you there.
I’m an electrician, I’ve had to go and unfrick home wiring attempts plenty of times. Usually the wife calls, I get there and she will berate her husband in front of me.
Some people have no idea. I’ve seen men not knowing how to use a screw driver, let alone a fricking hammer. How do these people function?
>Ask ChatGPT for a soap recipe with the select ingredients I have
>I follow it without bothering to check the ratios
>Realize it told me to put 4x as much oil as I'm supposed to
>Spend one hour mixing more lye in at wrong temperatures and breathing in fumes desperately trying to save my batch of $40 worth of materials
>Still waiting for the soap to harden
it's only trained to give answers that 'look' right
even when it gives the right answers chances are they are just scraped from the web
e. g. it 'solves' old problems from programming contests (because the solutions were posted online) but gets stumped by new problems
Sometimes it can solve new problems using info from old problems, but sometimes it makes mistakes that seem obvious to humans like that anon mentioned. It's improving at an... interesting pace, though. Especially considering chatgpt is far from the only cutting edge "AI" out there and it's not even supposed to write recipes or do coding or math, so it's interesting that it can do that shit whatsoever. It was only ever meant for general conversations.