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Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

431 points · 223 comments · iacguy

LastTrain · 1790332695 · focus · HN ↗
Explainer videos are dark patterns that replaced written howto documents in order to serve ads. Not seeing them pop up any more in search results is one of the few positive outcomes of Google switching to AI-first search results.
1. schnitzelstoat · 1790336766 · focus · HN ↗
  Given we can write the documents in LLMs and summarise/explain the documents with LLMs one would hope we would go back to written documents instead of videos now.
  Instead we've worked out how to get the LLM to make videos.
  1. AdamN · 1790340620 · focus · HN ↗
    12.4% of the world is illiterate and I'd guess more like 20% would have trouble quickly taking text and turning that into instructions faster than a video could do the same thing.
    LastTrain · 1790340771 · focus · HN ↗
    An illiterate person has no interest in a 3 minute video on how to enable paste mode in VIM
    fapjacks · 1790350945 · focus · HN ↗
    A video about exiting vim, however...
    LanceH · 1790342799 · focus · HN ↗
    The illiteracy seems to carry straight into video production. There are way too many 15 minute videos for 4 lines of instructions.

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