I'm trying to lose some weight, and while bored I pasted a few data points into Gemini to do some dumb extrapolation, just a list of dates and weights. No field names, no units.

I specifically avoided mentioning anything that would trigger any tut-tutting about the whole thing being a dumb exercise. Just anonymous linear regression.

Then when I finished I asked it to guess what we were talking about. It nailed it: the reasoning output was spot on, considering every clue: The amounts, the precision, the rate of decrease, the dates I had been asking about and human psychology. It briefly considered the chance of tracking some resource to plan for replacement but essentially said "nah human cares more about looking good this summer".

Then it gave me all the caveats and reprimands...