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@Daojoan And to make matters worse, there is fuck ton of stupid Ai generated generic slop videos that don't actually fix anything, it's just a generic video to fix some very broad issue and you can find like 15 same videos from different "creators".

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"Oh, I remember this video talked about that. Let me just ctrl-F the keyword to find the right part of the video..."

@Daojoan not to toot my own horn too much, but this has been annoying me for YEARS, and after pushing for way too long there's now interactive learning built into #Grafana.. as in, If you go to https://play.grafana.org/alerting , click the question mark in the upper right, and then select the interactive guide, it teaches you within the UI

@Daojoan the inability to process written language was the first slice at the throat, imo.

@Daojoan Now there is a AI button on youtube videos which you can use for summarizing the video or asking other questions.

@Daojoan Like an university lecture without text books and lecture notes. Can't be that bad, right? Its not like development is complex and (often) hard....

#teaching #slop

@Daojoan omg this. Every click to a link is painful.

@Daojoan yes! We had a discussion about this at my customer, and a user survey. The result has been 50/50 between video and written. We did a blended learning concept and we decided to choose the best for the users .

I agree , I like written as well more

@Daojoan I always hated video tutorials. Esp. because the format is inherently hard to adjust for updates.

@Daojoan Writing good guides is so much harder. Modern life gravitates towards the easy path.

@Daojoan Yes, I greatly prefer a concise, written 'how to' above the endless blathering on a video.

@Daojoan depending on what you want to learn I can suggest the Odin project if it’s software development you want to learn they have an exhaustive guide

@Daojoan Fully agree. Unfortunately most (AI gen'd?) websites also fail to get to the point efficiently, and ramble on around the subject for ages. Hence I prefer a short'n'succinct Codeberg/Github page or minimal blog post that dives straight into the issue and be done with it.

@Daojoan to be fair, video *tutorials* have worked better than written *tutorials* for me in many occasions. What I really struggle with right now is finding something that *isn't* a tutorial when all I need is concise, high-quality, up-to-date, structured and easily searchable reference material. Especially when it comes to web development.

@Daojoan Oh hell that is so true! It drives me bloody insane!

Ten minutes of video drivel that could be condensed down to a couple of pages of text and a few diagrams - all of which might take just a few minutes to read, understand and act upon.

I know about learning styles, etc. and that video instruction works better for some people, but give the rest of us the option FFS!!