Comment by TacticalCoder

> We now have 3d printers that can reliably make almost anything you want by fusing filament

I bought a cheap, used, Bambu Lab A1 printer after reading a comment here on HN a few months ago saying that it was basically now "download and print". And it's just that. Not saying Bambu's practices are great: what I'm saying is that 3D printer now work better than inkjet 2D printers ever did.

> What an amazing time to be alive.

I agree. In a few days I learned to model 3D pieces myself in OpenSCAD (and there are many other options than OpenSCAD) and I've already done "print in place" pieces (pausing the print, inserting a metal piece, continuing the print) to fix stuff around the house (and in the cars).

If you had told me 30 years ago that I'd be 3D printing pieces and getting help from LLMs, I wouldn't have believed it.