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Bondtech is rightfully getting criticism over the INDX nozzle hardness issue. The nozzles were marketed as hardened and suitable for abrasive materials, but the shipped tools reportedly measure only 30-32 HRC, well below the roughly 55-60 HRC people generally expect from a true hardened-steel nozzle. For comparison, my rough estimate for a Bambu stainless steel nozzle is around 10-20 HRC, likely near 15 HRC. I’ve personally run Bambu stainless nozzles for thousands of hours, including occasional mildly abrasive materials, without noticing meaningful wear or print quality issues. That does not excuse the incorrect marketing. People paid for hardened nozzles and are absolutely justified in being upset. At the same time, I don’t think this is going to be a major practical issue for the average INDX user printing normal PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, TPU, Silk, or other non fiber materials. The real concern is sustained use of matte, carbon fiber, glass fiber, glow in the dark, metal filled, or other heavily abrasive filaments. So yes, Bondtech needs to make this right, but for most people printing standard materials, the real world impact is probably much smaller than the headline hardness numbers make it sound.

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Something I have been thinking about: in the past, the best engineers I knew spent a lot of time automating their work in various ways. Better vim/emacs automations, writing lint rules to catch repeat code issues, building up a suite of e2e tests so they don't need to smoke test the app manually. These kinds of things were the highest leverage activities an engineer could do, because it multiplied their own output, which in turn meant they could build more things. I think many of these automations have become even more important now. This is true for a number of reasons. First, infra and DevX automation speeds you up. And if you are running an army of agents, each of those agents will be sped up also. More automation == more output per unit of time. Second, moving things to code improves efficiency. Your agent could fix an issue every time it sees that issue happen, but that uses tokens and might miss cases. If Claude instead writes a lint rule, CI step, or routine, that class of issue can be fully automated forever. This is really what people are talking about when they talk about loops -- it's about automating entire types of busywork rather than solving them one off. This isn't a new idea at all. Engineers have been doing this for a long time! Third and most importantly, automation makes it possible for others to contribute to the codebase more easily. Increasingly what I am seeing is engineers are contributing to codebases on day one because Claude can navigate the codebase for them, and that non-engineers are able to contribute to a codebase as effectively as engineers can. What gets in the way of both of these is domain knowledge that lives in peoples' heads rather than in automation -- the stuff you used to have to learn when ramping up. What has changed thanks to agents is the domain knowledge that can be encoded as infrastructure is no longer limited to what is expressible in lint rules and types and tests; it can now capture nearly all domain knowledge, encoded as code comments and skills and CLAUDE.md rules and memories. If I put up a PR for an iOS codebase I don't know and a code reviewer rejects it because it doesn't use the right framework, or if a designer builds a new feature and it gets rejected because it doesn't follow the right architectural patterns, these are failures of automation. Every team should be writing the CLAUDE.md's, REVIEW.md's, skills, and docs that enable agents to productively work in their codebase with zero additional context from the prompter. This sounds crazy, and at the same time is a natural extension of the stuff engineers have always done: automate, and encode domain knowledge as infrastructure. As the model gets smarter and as the harness matures, this task becomes easier. In the meantime, it is on every team to look for ways to convert their domain knowledge to infra so that Claude can write code better, so that code review catches issues automatically, and so the next person working on your codebase can contribute more easily.

This is the new Windows 11 Search experience without clutter and ads! Microsoft is letting you turn off Bing/web integration, remove ads, and all unnecessary features to create a clean Search experience on Windows 11. The home screen is calmer, promotional content is gone from web results, and search now labels results more clearly as app, setting, file, web, or Store. Local files, apps, and settings are prioritized when they are the better match. And most importantly -- you can now control whether web and Microsoft Store results appear at all!! That means you can finally stop Windows Search from acting like a Bing launcher when you’re just trying to find something on your own PC. Microsoft is also improving typo handling for apps, two-character file searches, settings ranking, cloud file discovery, and crash reliability. Windows is so back! 🥳