alexjray

I made this. My son is about to turn one.

My dad is 72 and my mom is 63.

I ran the life tables against how often we visit which was about once a month. At that rate my son would only see my dad 148 more times and my mom 248 more times before they passed away.

That was a bit shocking to me so we started seeing them more, now about every two weeks. My dad comes for breakfast, and my mom comes for lunch.

After running the numbers again my son will see my dad 321 more times and my mom 561 more times before they pass away. Small change, big difference.

Obviously all these are estimates. I averaged the years using the SSA 2022 period life tables and have the detailed method I used linked on the page.

The calculator behind the page is a small thing I built called Tend. You can run your own numbers, I would be curious if it changes anything for you as it did for me.

Can't wait for this in my town. I also can't wait to see people freak out over them.

The service is partially a reminder app but actually does the work for you.

"Writing" code is cheap but this just scratches the surface. Its a completely different paradigm. All forms of digital generation is cheap and on the verge of being fully automated which comes with self recursion loops.

Automated intelligence is now cheap....

Yeah I don't buy the build internally argument. Its not necessarily the building of an internal tool that is the problem it's the maintenance and service level guarantees that you get from a vendor that are arguable more valuable so you can focus on the thing that matters for your company. Product market fit is now more important than ever and there are so many additional options now; focus on the "right" thing is more valuable now than ever before.

Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.

Show me the incentive and I can likely guess how hard your API is to use.

Yeah that feels like the right approach to enable the code generation to test itself which then becomes a matter of specification and functionality definition instead of worrying about code quality.

Are you doing all of this in cursor or something like Claude code?