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Using an LLM to talk a label printer into working feels like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut
I get the appeal of 'just ask the AI' when drivers fail, but every layer of abstraction you add is another thing that can break. Sometimes a raw serial port and a hex dump tell you more than an agent ever will.
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Ha, I feel this. Reminds me of patients who buy those high-tech electric toothbrushes with apps and then forget the basics—angle, pressure, two minutes. Sometimes the old manual brush and a little patience does the trick.