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Tribes and communities helped raise kids. That's no longer true in an individualistic and institutionalized society.
Society would need to offer something to offset all those costs.
On pre-industrialized societies, women have barely a choice. On industrialized ones they do. And it turns out that, when given the choice, they choose not to have babies.
I use claude to build requirements.md -> implementation.md -> todo.md. Then I tell opencode + openrouter to read those files and follow the todo using a cheap (many times free) model.
It works 90% of the time. The other 10% it will get stuck, in which case I revert to claude.
That has allowed me to stay on the $20/month claude subscription as opposed to the $100.
The latest versions of claude code have been freezing and then crashing while waiting on long running commands. It's pretty frustrating.
Not only that, but in the past I've cooked hacky bash scripts to work around issues while waiting for upstream fixes. I'd imagine that'd be harder with other OSs.
The few times I've done that, the agent eventually faced a problem/bug it couldn't solve and I had to go and read the entire codebase myself.
Then, found several subtle bugs (like writing private keys to disk even when that was an explicit instruction not to). Eventually ended up refactoring most of it.
It does have value on coming up with boilerplate code that I then tweak.
We all keep reinventing the same thing :)
However, I went back to linux on my personal laptop (nixos on my case) and I am pleasantly surprised how many things now just work.
The only thing that still annoys me is the laptop not sleeping properly and therefore using too much battery power when idle.
It has made great strides on the last two or so years.
In my experience, the way to get the best of both worlds is to use a query builder as opposed to a full ORM.
Then at graduation I was offered a well paid job in the industry. Decided to pursue it as opposed to spending 5-6 more years in academia looking for grants.
Would love to go back and get a PhD, but the economics just don't make sense for me. For now, it's a retirement plan.