Thankfully there's infinite people from other countries who can migrate freely and replace the aging population, right?

(Serious question)

In my observation, there are a lot of unaccounted for and unintended issues that can arise from this.

Where I live, we are going through a lot of this right now (98+% of population growth is from immigration).

Immigrants have more kids than the non-immigrant population, but they do not actually have above replacement rate amounts of kids, so they are going to require more immigrants to take care of them later on. Also, the children of immigrants have non-immigrant level fertility rates. So, it's not a long term, sustainable way to "replace the aging population."

On top of this, immigrants often want to bring their elderly relatives with them when they are possible. I know there are some ways to try to mitigate this (e.g., immigration limits, charging them extra fees on immigration), but at some point there becomes a large enough immigrant voting bloc that this changes. Now you have extra, unaccounted for elderly people that are required to be looked after.

I have no idea what the solutions are, but if we are trying to plug the gap through immigration, it'll require perpetual immigration. Most countries globally are now at below replacement fertility rates, so this opens up a huge can of worms. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but it doesn't seem like anything other than a quick band-aid or a solution that's doing anything other than adding "debt" to the issue.

Where do you propose regularly finding hundreds of millions of skilled English speakers of similar values who are interested in permanently migrating to what will be countries clearly in decline?

India, that's where everyone else gets them. People are just economic units

Even India's fertility rate is now below replacement, and they're increasingly actively working to turn the tide on their brain drain. And India's economy is both already massive and growing quite rapidly. At current trends they'll pass the US within a decade or two. They certainly aren't just this long term sustainable pool of people to draw from.

A better alternative to Meetup.com

This is why I think AI generated code is going nowhere. There's actual conceptual differences that the stotastic parrot cannot understand, it can only copy patterns. And there's no distinction between good and bad code (IRL) except for that understanding

what we need to do is setup a feedback loop for bad code so that the AI agents can be trained to not do that

instantly awesome.

I suck at chinese but I want to get better and I'm too embarassed to try and talk with real people and practise.

This is a great compromise. even just practising for a few minutes I already feel way more confident based on its feedback, and I feel like I know more about the details of pronunciation.

I'm worried this might get too big and start sucking like everything else.

I see this as "my problem is to grow these people" so I don't solve anything for them

I think it's just a case is perspective

I feel more useful now more than anything.

The amount of ai generated planning and fluffy workloads that I've been able to just delete from the team has saved the company many engineering hours. Not least of all in bugs.

Value your expertise and experience. It's only greeting more valuable, not less.

It's great that this is a case for you.

I actually enjoy process of writing code, understanding deeply the system I work on, finding elegant solutions to business problems - not just a list of checkboxes with features for a given sprint that agent churns in background. Sure, practically I understand that business doesn't care how well something is written as long as it works somewhat reliably. I might eventually adapt to this new horrible reality of developers who have no idea what's going on in the codebase they "work" on.

You can still understand a system deeply and find elegant solutions, and use LLMs to translate your idea into code, then review the code. It's still much faster than writing everything by hand in a lot of cases, if done properly.

Reviewing code that was written by somebody else is one of the least fun and enjoyable activities in my experience . I personally don't know any programmers who enjoy process of doing PR reviews.

If you only care about number of features Copilot implements for you or lines of code Claude Code gave you - you must be a manager.

I really don't mind PR reviews, as long as the author is cooperative. I do not like arguing over obvious things with someone who isn't participating in good faith. Thankfully I have a good team in which it doesn't happen.

Writing slowly is a boon.

I think the real cause of the loneliness epidemic is that the older generation never taught us how to socialise and make friends.

I make an effort to talk to people and now we have "come over to dinner" friendships with people we met at a public park.

> I think the real cause of the loneliness epidemic is that the older generation never taught us how to socialise and make friends.

That is false. First because most of the social learning is done by mimicking what others do and we certainly all saw our parents invite and get invited to stuff.

Plus there is school which is the #1 place where your learn to socialize and make friends.

I actually like that. ambitious!

the issue I have is that I want to have some apps that will need to be approved somehow. banking for starters, but some other things as well.

I just got the bigme hibreak pro, which is an e-ink android phone, and while I loved it in all cases, I realised it was a total dealbreaker that the Android Auto navigation was broken (something to do with their display chip couldn't report the right display size, I also want to be able to take and look at colour pictures. so e-ink didn't quite work for me there.)

Otherwise, I love the idea of this!

I think I would like a bit of an escape hatch: maybe have the normal web-browser that's accessible under like 4 or 5 clicks.

The big issue isn't just that these phones are set up to be addictive, but they are also too legitimately useful in other situations as well. I use facebook to scroll AND check marketplace. I use instagram to scroll AND talk to friends.

so some friction is necessary, but some friction is a total dealbreaker. if I can't bank or navigate, then the change of phone had affected me too much for me to not counteract my whole life needs to change in some way.

I've been thinking about this often, because i wanted the hibreak to work.. I actually think there needs to be some sort of "Life OS" where we can get told how to live in this new world where we can't check our phones as often. Do we include "look at a physical map" as part of our routine or do we just allow android auto to work and accept that it might be an avenue of leaking through some content? (not a great example)

That's so funny, i made the same thing. Looks to function exactly the same.

https://quickfit.dre-west.workers.dev/projects. (click "signin as guest" -- the signup doesn't work so don't worry about that. a friend added it so I could save and access on different computers but we ended up not finishing it)

this is beautiful, thank you :)

Thank you!