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The death of web development education

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  1. drewbitt · · focus · HN ↗
    Speaking as someone who never learned well from courses and always preferred documentation and 'just doing it': I wonder how much of this drop is 100% LLM usage by devs vs. devs realizing a lot of video content was just padded out anyway.
    1. sodapopcan · · focus · HN ↗
      Well as someone who got a ton of value out of tutorials and would go back to the documentation and "just do it," I wonder how much this is really actually just LLMs as we're all seeing out sites bombarded with bots ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    2. gherkinnn · · focus · HN ↗
      The mentioned 2ality blog by Axel Rauschmayer was an extremely detailed and thorough look at TS and JS specs. So right up your alley. Same with Josh W Comeau.

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2ality.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2ality.com&#x2F;

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joshwcomeau.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joshwcomeau.com&#x2F;

      I for one mourn the loss of these and other blogs and am not exactly sure the trade was worth it. Not with the cretins in charge.

    3. Animats · · focus · HN ↗
      &gt; a lot of video content was just padded out anyway.

      When you hear the phrase &quot;but first we have to go back to...&quot; on YouTube, you&#x27;re entering a filler section to allow more ad content.

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