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“That’s really fun. Well done!” – Max Abrahamson, after his first session in the Temperossa. The first track day for our 1987 Porsche 924S “Temperossa” is in the books, and it was a resounding success! Today I want to share how artificial intelligence, particularly large language models like Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini helped our family…

We’re making our way through suspension and brake upgrades. For suspension we went with Superbeetle coilovers as helper springs. And for the front some slightly modified MarkI Golf Alibaba sourced coilovers. These were the LLM suggested (by training on loads of forum discussion data) cheapest ways to get the 924 to do the things we’d…

Much less time, unfortunately but 2 major pieces of news. First, we have fully deleted the lights. Why? The lights aren’t super heavy, but they’re on the list of things that can be removed on the path to cut nearly 200lbs. We’re not going to remove doors, but bumpers, door glass, side glass are all…

We’ve had a chance to get through baselining for all of the core systems. For purposes of tracking Lemons budget, we’ve divided everything into safety vs go faster. Safety Gear 2/10 Great like seats, harness, fire suppression will get serious once we’ve got the basics covered. Brakes 8/10 Going to get the stock system back…

Have talked with a bunch of founders about how they are using LLMs as part of product development and engineering. Maybe the most succinct comes from Kyle Doerksen at Future Motion “Anything you get from an LLM, needs to be verified via another source”. This makes a lot of sense and it’s where I’ve wound…