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Now that I’m experimenting with blocking YouTube altogether for longer and longer periods of time, I find that I don’t need it at all anymore. I used to heavily
by throwuwu 3y ago
Now that I’m experimenting with blocking YouTube altogether for longer and longer periods of time, I find that I don’t need it at all anymore. I used to heavily rely on it for tutorials but ChatGPT has replaced that; why watch a 30 minute explanation of something that winds up being tangentially related to what you’re doing when you can just talk directly to the documentation and ask follow up questions? Other than that use, everything else on YouTube was just a distraction.
- nicce 3y ago> why watch a 30 minute explanation of something that winds up being tangentially related to what you’re doing when you can just In the past there used to be well written blog posts and you were able to read them in 15 minutes and better understand the matter. Now we have to waste 15 mins more of our life to get the same point.
- throwuwu 3y agoI don’t even bother with blog posts anymore unless they are new information and in that case it’s often easier to use Edge and Bing chat to interrogate the page directly. It’s far better than skimming or ctrl-f