It also didn’t solve the root cause of the issue. ECUs don’t need to be overwritten to get stock performance and emissions. Something is wrong with hardware/mechanical that needs to be solved.
What he did was technically interesting, but probably not a great solution to the actual problem.
Yeah I had the same impression. There was plenty of data presented and code was dumped and reversed…but was the actual issue solved? What even was causing the issue? Presumably it passed smog sometime in the past couple years so what degraded? It was lean and there was some kind of issue with pressure. I can’t imagine a reflash or whatever is the fix.
It definitely feels like a classic case of the operator reinforcing Claude to keep pursuing a goal that’s counterproductive to a robust solution. Claude complied and they went hard on it but I can’t imagine the driver is any better off and more likely in a worse spot as the underlying issue wasn’t solved.
What he did was technically interesting, but probably not a great solution to the actual problem.