Reading up on 3d-printing
3 deep · digging since jan 30
- Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract - Jeff Geerling
Bambu Lab threatened a developer with legal action over an AGPL-licensed OrcaSlicer fork, escalating its crackdown on local-only printer control.
- Cheap design
LLM-assisted coding shifts software design from assembling standard parts to generating custom modules because generated code has no quality penalty like 3D-printed parts.
- Making niche solutions is the point
3D printing and software engineering enable creating tailored niche solutions for personal problems, offering precision and customization that mass-produced alternatives cannot match.