[sanderjd]

How old are your kids? My eldest is 5, and this is starting to be more and more top of mind. I felt like earlier on that it wasn't worth thinking much about it because it was too hard to predict what the issues would be as they became relevant to her. I think this turned out to be right, because if I'd thought about this a bunch a few years ago, I wouldn't have included generative AI in my thinking at all.

[bostonwalker]

Less than a year old, but I have been thinking about the issue proactively and there are things you can do for them even at this age. For instance, I set my son up with a Proton email account on the family domain name before we left the hospital (see my reply to sibling comment for reasons why).

[sanderjd]

Well, I understand the new-parent exuberance, but I'd just say that I think you may lose the energy for that kind of thing over time :) Sure, you can make an email address for a one year old, but it is not going to be useful for an extremely long time, and there is a non-zero chance it will never be useful at all, because email will no longer be a useful thing by the time it would have been. Seems like premature optimization!

But of course there's also nothing wrong with thinking about and doing this kind of stuff even if it never turns out to be very useful, if you enjoy it, that's enough :)