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Not OP (and I don't use it for this case), but I suspect that the instructional "how do you do X" videos that supplanted the "look up the blog post" of even longer ago.

"How do you start a react application" and going to https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=How+do+you+star... (incognito or private session suggested to avoid search history getting you react application suggestions for the next several months) and watching those videos.

For many people looking for a guide, they've switched to an LLM which gives them a more tailored experience.



Exactly this! Not sure why i am being downvoted it seems people don't like me using LLM over Videos. But i've not watched a single "tutorial video" this year.


(I didn't downvote you)

Surely "tutorial videos" are only a tiny fraction of YouTube videos? And also, some tutorial videos cannot be replaced by a textual (or even graphical) LLM description, especially if the topic being described is visual in nature and it helps to see the other person doing it.


Yeah, I'd think if an LLM's instructions are sufficient, one would have used a written tutorial in the past and not watched a video.




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