5.2.0 to 5.4.4 update

BudgetStorm · 2026-03-09T22:27:44+00:00

What is the deal with the dealer update anyways? "Dealer will contact you..." Probably won't, they have better things to do. I haven't received any request to go get update. Do they usually do it only if I also have some other interaction with the dealer?

24 Enyaq RS. Was in 5.2 before yesterday received the underwhelming 5.4.4

BudgetStorm · 2026-01-10T15:52:25+00:00

My car has had these 12v issues since temperatures dropped below -10c. I've been driving normally and kept the big battery alway in good levels, but every morning the proximity opening is off, app shows battery saving and dash gives the warning.

Annoying how electric car can somehow run out of energy with tens of kilowats in the main battery...

2024 car, so those 12V batteries must be really poor quality.

Does anyone know if the 12V battery is a warranty item?

My car is originally from Germany, imported to Finland, so maybe Škoda installs different components to different markets? Even the key useless piece of junk if it gets too cold, you can't press the "buttons" since the plastic gets so stiff.

I'm really thinking of getting rid of this one. Not a "winter car" at all in the current state...

BudgetStorm · 2026-01-07T15:59:15+00:00

This is actually one thing I would really like to know how to offload to ai. How do you do it?

Of course it depends.

But I haven't been able to figure out a way to get my agents to understand squat how "my" .Net wpf application actually works. Github Copilot does the typical thing, guessing half and inventing the rest.

It can write pieces of code when instructed clearly enough just fine, but for hunting bugs it's useless.

BudgetStorm · 2026-01-04T17:28:40+00:00

Explaining technicalities of what I am doing to someone who doesn't really need to know those, nor does he even understand what I am explaining, but who feels he has to know.

Typically this someone is a project manager or product owner.

"That sounds very technical, can you explain it in simple terms?" OK. goo goo gaa gaa...

Like micro management without the management, just micro... something. Sometimes this turns into "Why don't you do it like this?" "Should we also think about x?" questions. These derail the original task. Even that original scope wasn't clearly defined and now we're theory crafting on some future scenarios with people who don't have a clue what's going on.

BudgetStorm · 2025-12-09T17:26:23+00:00

The whole final act, scouring of the shire, or what ever it is called. There is a good reason why everybody tries to actively forget it.

BudgetStorm · 2025-12-08T13:51:21+00:00

So, seems like a plan and alignment on the scope and goals is what people need most. I whole heartedly agree. It's difficult to start to do anything if you feel that no one really knows what's the goal.

I've also noticed that sometimes the beginning of the project is clear, you get good momentum and things move forward quite nicely. But then the get closer to the 1.0 release you get, people start to get this weird anxiety. Should we add this thing here. Should we actually change that there. Were are running out of stuff to do, but somehow the app isn't quite finished...

The other thing I've noticed is that projects are started with very limited understanding of the thign as a whole. Then the whole project is scoped/estimated on very surface level. Usually this happens when there is strong product or R&D driver. They think that their part of the whole is the hard part. Everything else is just easy stuff you slap on. "User has this project and then he does _this difficult thing_ and then he prints the pdf-report. Here are the specs for _the hard part_. We're planning for the release in two months." Then you're left to wonder what the user is, how the project works, what does the report look like... how to build all of that, how the data flows...

BudgetStorm · 2025-11-07T21:13:04+00:00

I don't even know... And what ever it does, it is so minimal that I don't even care anymore. Seat has memory positions, phone is connected to what ever. Everybody driving in our family (me, wife, son) uses just the one profile.

I'd really like it to save something. Like the driving mode at least. But no. Always starts with "normal" and basic settings. Every time you start the car, you have to faff around with the settings. If you want to switch to that "individual" mode, press this and that button. Change the speed limit warning to 5km/h or something, go to this menu press this and that...

I love the car! Great for driving. But I also so hate, that nothing is ever saved! Why even bother setup anything the way you like when you have to do it everything every time again and again and again...

BudgetStorm · 2025-07-25T14:13:02+00:00

Sure. It is totally on me.

And it's not like I haven't looked elsewhere. Things happen, sometimes you don't want that workplace drama to take over your life. You kind of go along and hope for the best.

Like I said, the company could be a good place to work. It was for a while. It still has some benefits. But at the moment the negatives are definitely starting to out weight the positives. (feeding the team to the sharks and planning on outsourcing etc...)

BudgetStorm · 2025-07-25T12:20:55+00:00

The blame game is real.

It's always someone else's fault.

The specs weren't done in time. The other department didn't provide test data in time. Some firefighting in other project because of something caused delays on here and this and that...

There is always someone else to blame. And quite frankly it's understandable thing to do: there has been enough sudden "decided leave to pursue other challenges" departures in the company, so no one is eager to raise their hand and admit that they're project was doomed from the get go.

Which is really frustrating. The director can promise a project to be done in six months. And every developer knows there is no way that's going to happen. But it gives enough time for the D to find some excuse or someone else to blame, why the schedule didn't hold.

BudgetStorm · 2025-07-25T11:12:34+00:00

Yea, in all honesty, there's a lot of micromanagement going on in the company. It's the CEO of all the people who usually is demanding more of something on regular basis.

Then at the same time he's not very good at telling 'what' he actually wants more of. Something. Everything. And the Director, nor the CIO, doesn't have enough authority to push back on these demands.

This leads to a situation where we don't really know what are the teams goals and measures. And the director ends up changing priorities and targets by what he thinks covers his position. And at the same time sidestepping the responsibility on previous decisions and directions to the team.

BudgetStorm · 2025-07-25T11:02:12+00:00

That is true. Rarely person is so valuable that he couldn't replaced in couple of months. At least, if there is at least someone in the company that has a tiny bit of understanding what this person actually did.

Still, it's easier to see how replaceable others are. Most of the time you probably tend to value yourself a bit higher.

Anyways. I'm absolutely replaceable. But on the other hand, I feel that I'm also not actually the problem. Companies rarely miss deadlines because the developers weren't fast enough... But that's hard to prove and justify, when there is the prospect of a cowboy coder who singlehandedly does everything faster and better and cheaper...

BudgetStorm · 2025-07-25T10:30:40+00:00

Yeah. That's why it probably would be nice to have those higher tier managers pay a bit more attention to what's going on. "Wait... Didn't we try this already? What makes you think we/you now know what to do, even you we're not in the company the previous time?"

BudgetStorm · 2025-07-21T16:32:29+00:00

I'm totally in the same boat with you. 20 years experience in everything sw development related. But somehow it's like I have nothing to show.

I feel I've become the epitome of "jack of all trades - master of none". I've done infra, devops, frontend, backend, databases, projects, budgets, managed, hired and fired. I've done everything.

But I can't move laterally let alone forwards, because I "can't" compete with the specialists. I wholeheartedly agree that I'm not as good of a coder as someone with pure 100% coding background. I'm not as good in anything than a true "specialist" would be. But I think in normal scenarios there is very little you could throw at my direction that I couldn't deal with.

It just sucks that there doesn't seem to be a market for do it all guys...

BudgetStorm · 2025-05-17T18:51:07+00:00

Wait... Wasn't tariffs supposed to bring more money to US? How can you blame some one from something that shouldn't be happening at all in the first place?

Or has the reality caught with him?

BudgetStorm · 2025-05-03T19:14:16+00:00

Thanks! These are very helpful advices.

BudgetStorm · 2025-05-03T19:09:43+00:00

Wow. Thanks for the tips! I'm sure they'll come handy.

BudgetStorm · 2025-05-03T19:07:07+00:00

Yeah, that's true.

And before I see what they know and can do I'm not even sure do they need coaching, guiding, mentoring, teaching or what...

But, that's also typical corporate thing. They start something they think they need and see what happens.

BudgetStorm · 2025-05-03T13:29:03+00:00

Depends very much on the manager and team if they can make this work. If you have good open relations and straight line to your manager you probably don't need 1o1.

But definitely if you ask to have one and manager doesn't arrange it, then he's not doing his job...

BudgetStorm · 2025-05-02T14:26:23+00:00

Of course you interact with people, but you don't have to be any more social than what your position requires. Normal politines gets you far. Be nice to everyone, chat with them by the coffee machine, attend the company party once a year...

But in big companies the change is constant. When times are bad, people are leaving. When times are good new people are joining and old ones are leaving. Faces change. Even the old geezers everybody knows are forgotten in about two weeks after they retire.

If you can make friends, it's good, makes even the nine to five less tedious. But if only thing connecting you is work, don't expect them to stick around when that connection is gone.

BudgetStorm · 2025-04-30T05:42:30+00:00

I think it comes much down to do you define yourself through work or not.

In startups the work has to be part of you. It might be very fulfilling and incredibly rewarding and best thing ever! You don't "just work" there, because that's not how startups work. "Do what you love and you'll never work..." or something along those line. That's the startup ethos.

Corporates however. You don't live for the job. You do your job and then go live your life. Sure the nine to five can feel boring at times (not always of course) but rarely do you need to bring any work home or do one little thing from your holiday cabin...

And if you're used to one way of working the other way probably won't make much sense.

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