Claude Code reverse-engineers HP printer driver for macOS

Claude Code spent ~4 hours reverse-engineering the SPL3 raster language and ran HP's real codec in a Linux container to make the HP Laser 1008a print on Mac, a printer HP never supported on macOS. The session used Opus 4.8 with 1M context.
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