Disagree, it can be learning as long as you build out your mental model while reading. Having educational reading material for the exact thing you're working on is amazing at least for those with interest-driven brains.
Science YouTube is no comparison at all: while one can choose what to watcha, it's a limited menu that's produced for a mass audience.
I agree though that reading LLM-produced blog posts (which many of the recent top submissions here seem to be) is boring.
Don't worry, it's an LLM that wrote it based on the patterns in the text, e.g. "Starting a new project once felt insurmountable. Now, it feels realistic again."
> While I have my opinions on existing crates, I believe we can share experiences and finally converge on a common good solution, no matter who made it.
I'm pretty sure an LLM will be able to handle an instruction such as:
"Wherever exceptions are thrown, add as much contextual information to the exceptions as possible. Use class RichException<Exception> to store the extra information". Etc. etc.
Sure, but writing and maintaining such instructions is also work. And not something one thinks about usually until the debugging session with insufficient errors.
Yeah. Certainly felt like that. On the other hand, the content does seem good. It definitely wasn't slop, even if I can't judge how useful it really was (in terms of giving a solution).
Or to say it in his own words: "Few individuals have done as much to push the web forward while uplifting its developers, and that legacy will be felt for a long time to come." source: https://addyosmani.com/bio/
> His story isn’t just about writing code, but about inspiring a community to strive for a better web. And perhaps the most exciting chapter is still being written, as he helps shape how AI and the web will intersect in the coming decade. Few individuals have done as much to push the web forward while uplifting its developers, and that legacy will be felt for a long time to come.
I clicked through to the bio and am super confused. Third person, extremely long, lots of pictures with CEOs and smelling of LLM writing.
Here's a sample:
> His story isn’t just about writing code, but about inspiring a community to strive for a better web. And perhaps the most exciting chapter is still being written, as he helps shape how AI and the web will intersect in the coming decade. Few individuals have done as much to push the web forward while uplifting its developers, and that legacy will be felt for a long time to come.
He led Chrome DevRel for many years - if you were learning about new web platform technologies circa 2010-2015 you probably ran across his writing.
The bio is cringe, but the important thing to realize about these professional-networking bios is that they are sales pitches, intended to sell a person (and specifically, their experience and connections) to a large corporation who will pay them even more money. An ordinary person, with ordinary authentic emotions, is not the intended audience. They're specifically selling to people whose job is to deal with bullshit.
The linked post itself also reeks of LLM writing (negative parallelisms in every other paragraph). But sadly, it seems like this is just the new standard for highly upvoted front page posts.
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