The Same Confident Voice

Back in May I wrote about asking ChatGPT and Claude where to put my circulator fan in my study. Last week the question was less relaxed and burning. The UK broke its June temperature record three days running, my study is a small room with the sun aimed straight at it, and I went back to both models to see if they could help. What came back read well and annoyingly didn’t work. Both kept telling me to aim the air just above my head, which puts the column over you, and when I said it wasn’t working they’d tell me to nudge it up a little more and that I was nearly there, pointing me the whole time at a placement that wasn’t going to achieve what they calculated. ...

July 1, 2026 · 3 min · Kashif Nazir