My read on this is, that they realize that the full AGI is not coming and they need to focus on computational efficiency to be profitable. We will probably see a lot of work from them focusing on increasing switching costs as the models themselves become commoditized.

Their problem is, that their frontier models get distilled quickly by DeepSeek and co. The distilled models will then go on to provide 90% of the efficiency for 10% of the compute.

The tax payers of course.

I have saved one such hot end that had gotten plastic all over itself by heating it with a gas torch. The PLA burns off. Burned off the coloring on the aluminium too.

Next time I tried it, I melted the hot end.

How…? Mine is literally 2 bolts and the bowden tube retaining bolt? Plus of course the sensor and resistor cartridge. I have no experience of direct feed hot ends tho.

Replace the resistor and temp sensor. I would also replace the hot end itself, at least for my printer it was like 10e