#aging

With respect to memory, while I can’t remember everything I used to be able to, I can understand things again very quickly with appropriate, er, prompting. AI is very good at helping me with this, and it lets me switch between open source projects and work projects much more efficiently than if I didn’t have it. With respect to the long hours, AI is able to grind in a way that, even as a young developer, I would have had a difficult time keeping up with. This means, for example, I can have a much more extensive test suite for my projects than I would have otherwise. Looking at the tests that Claude generated in this case, they are more extensive than what I probably could have mustered the energy to do myself. So AI has addressed two fundamental (relative) weaknesses I have developed as an older developer.

Getting older isn’t a bad thing. It’s when things get interesting. But no matter how old you are, stay curious. That’s the only thing worth clinging to.

"Intense auditory brain training targeted at the regions of a rat’s brain that process sound reversed many aspects of normal, age-related cognitive decline and improved the health of the brain cells, according to a new study from researchers at University of California, San Francisco."

"The good news, and this was true across almost all 80 countries in the study, is that if you make it to aged 70 and are still physically fit, your are on average as "happy and mentally healthy as a 20-year old.""

"the first generation to grow up with videogames is all grown up"

"Notions about marriage, family and work will change in fundamental ways, they say, as will attitudes toward the young and the old."

"With a breadth of experience and perspective, older bloggers are staking out a place in the blogosphere a medium overwhelmingly dominated by the young."

"Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging."

"a researcher at the University of Alberta says most people have the ability to reverse the mental declines that come with aging."