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Cake day: May 11th, 2026

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  • Now the only people who can afford boomer McMansions are boomers who all don’t want to buy those but downsize instead.

    Downsized housing is in the same type of homes first time home buyers also want, which is almost universally NIMBYed into oblivion, so now these downsized homes are a lot more expensive for what you get and there aren’t nearly enough of them.

    How boomers figured that them being the largest cohort, all owning giant homes, and all planning on selling them to smaller and smaller generations of people who’ve been largely locked out of home ownership would work for them is beyond me. Well they made that bed so I guess they get to sleep in it now.

    You know it’s bad when the Etsy home page has “sell home fast find buyers spell $15” as like the third promoted product from a witch in Minnesota.



  • The other thing is solving on-the-job issues that crop up like the previous plumber not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground, and now you need to figure out how to deal with their cursed contraption. Good luck little robot! Hope you figure it out in such a way that the homeowner doesn’t sue your AI startup into buying them a full house Reno, or the value of the house pre-poonado.

    I’m also in the same boat as you. My job is in the field and is already heavily automated but that’s not doing a damn thing for replacing me. The hard part is understanding a multivariate system and it’s safety critical. Humans can manage it but AI can’t yet, and probably never fully will.