I’ve been thinking about how modern family structures seem increasingly misaligned with what our biology and history may have prepared us for. It seems likely that nature "intended" families to be multigenerational, larger clan-like units linked by shared responsibility, proximity, and care.
Modern norms have instead left many parents effectively on their own, juggling full-time work with full-time childcare. If multigenerational living were normalized, the retired could help raise the kids while the working adults focus on providing. That setup allows for more quality time rather than burnout.
This isn’t anecdotal. I didn’t grow up in a household like that. But the research supports it:
1. Older adults living with younger generations experience less loneliness, better mental health, and even longer lifespans.
2. Multigenerational households are more financially resilient, less likely to live in poverty, and able to share housing, food, and caregiving costs.
3. Children benefit cognitively and emotionally from regular grandparent involvement.
4. Multigenerational setups enable parents to stay in the workforce while providing more consistent and affordable childcare.
5. Families in these homes report stronger relationships and better intergenerational understanding.
Of course there are challenges. Privacy, space, and generational conflict are real. But with today's social isolation, rising living costs, and aging demographics, we might want to normalize this kind of household again.
Maybe the future isn't just smarter cities or more automation, but rethinking how we live together.
Speaking from experience, both are necessary. Public childcare and afterschool programs aren't a replacement for quality time with grandparents. They also don't cover weekends or evenings like grandparents can do.
I guess? The town my parents settled in was doing well when they moved there. 15 years later when I was born, it and all the surrounding towns were clearly in decline. Today, friends that have stuck around say it’s not safe to walk around because of the meth.
They also didn’t have jobs for programmers, so I moved to where they did.
I've built the same toy project (personalized bedtime story generator) with lang-chain and lang-graph + pydanticAI. I preferred the latter. With agents right now the priority is to try to wrestle predictability out of the models and working with pydantic backed dependencies and state is great
I am very impressed and I am getting great results for queries like "Show me how to use langchain in python".
However I am disappointed that when I provide a url it can not read the page. Given that this is a search engine I would expect it to be able to read any public URL I provide it. For example I attached a PDF of my resume and provided a link to a public job description and asked it to generate a cover letter tailored to my experience for this position. This is something I have done with easy success with ChatGPT GPT-4o, but Phind throws its hands up. :(
Thank you! Appreciate the feedback. Custom links are something we should be able to do -- we'll run some checks and make sure that feature is working properly. Thanks for letting me know.
I’m a Staff Backend Engineer with 20+ years of experience, currently looking for my next opportunity. I specialize in Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and scalable system architecture. I’ve built and led the development of high-performance applications, mentored engineers, and leveraged AI-assisted development tools to accelerate workflows.
I’m particularly interested in startups or small companies where I can have a high impact, take ownership, and help build something great. I thrive in fast-moving environments and love solving complex problems at scale.
this happens after I've moved everything to height. downside is it was a lot of work. upside is height is amazing and I'm pleased with the choice. anyone else using it?
We are loving it and we aren't even using it fully to its ability. For example we do almost no communication in the 'chat' that exists for each issue (in place of comments) since we are a very small team and still are talking mostly in slack about the issues, but I predict as we grow this will become a useful feature for us.
In the meantime we are loving the 'every issue can have sub-issues' and have customized the fields to our liking.
This is a tool with a lot of power. I can see a well-intentioned PM going crazy with it, but for our needs I was startled with how great it is.
DMNO looks wonderful. I would love to use it for a monorepo which is using TypeScript/React for frontend services and Python for the backend. Native Python support please, `user_demand += 1`
Modern norms have instead left many parents effectively on their own, juggling full-time work with full-time childcare. If multigenerational living were normalized, the retired could help raise the kids while the working adults focus on providing. That setup allows for more quality time rather than burnout.
This isn’t anecdotal. I didn’t grow up in a household like that. But the research supports it:
1. Older adults living with younger generations experience less loneliness, better mental health, and even longer lifespans. 2. Multigenerational households are more financially resilient, less likely to live in poverty, and able to share housing, food, and caregiving costs. 3. Children benefit cognitively and emotionally from regular grandparent involvement. 4. Multigenerational setups enable parents to stay in the workforce while providing more consistent and affordable childcare. 5. Families in these homes report stronger relationships and better intergenerational understanding.
Of course there are challenges. Privacy, space, and generational conflict are real. But with today's social isolation, rising living costs, and aging demographics, we might want to normalize this kind of household again.
Maybe the future isn't just smarter cities or more automation, but rethinking how we live together.
---
*Sources:*
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9876343/ 2. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/03/24/the-inc... 3. https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/75/6/12... 4. https://www.gu.org/app/uploads/2021/03/FamilyMatters2021.pdf 5. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db255.pdf