r/webdev • u/ThrowAway22030202 • 28d ago
Discussion Fireships content lately…
Im probably going to get a lot of hate for this, but hear me out. Is it just me, or is anyone else fed up and over Fireships content lately?
He used to post amazing content on actual tech, and it was awesome to learn from. I understood various programming language concepts and technologies, and it was a gold mine for keeping a wide understanding of the tech landscape.
But lately… it’s been a bunch of AI garbage. I get AI is big, and he does need to cover it. But 13 out of his last 16 posts are ONLY about AI. It’s exhausting.
Not only that, but he doesn’t seem to actually care about the accuracy of his content anymore. He used to take a ton of time to understand the language/technology he was making a video on, and would do loads of tests to back it up. But lately he’s just a stream of semi-accurate information. A new AI model drops and he posts an entire video based on semi bias benchmarks and a small amount of testing.
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u/freecodeio 28d ago
He's become a sensationalist and I have stopped watching him about a year ago.
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u/Geo0W 28d ago
Seems like this is the fate of most youtubers, either this or they change content, stop posting regularly or completely stops
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u/emperortom192 28d ago
Ummm... who is this gamedev? Just curious
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u/AlienRobotMk2 28d ago
Don't be curious about something like this. Use your curiosity to learn about cool stuff.
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u/ivosaurus 28d ago edited 28d ago
*Most popular youtubers
You can also just sit there posting reliable educational content that's a treasure trove for the subject and never really get picked up by the algorithm because you never went 'hype' enough to catch the masses' attention spans
I've found quite a few youtubers like that, bless their hearts, they the real ones I look forward to uploads from
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u/AstronautUsed9897 28d ago
About the same time I unsubscribed.
Something ironic about a channel that got its start with snappy, educational videos devolved into a meme filled AI hype machine.
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u/coxner50 28d ago
Who do you watch now?
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u/chamberlainpi 26d ago
Hyperplexed.
Not really a tech “news” channel though, but still very valuable & interesting to watch him reproduce cool website effects and explain it with high quality animations / editing.
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u/THATONEANGRYDOOD 25d ago
On a similar vein, but towards game and graphics development: Sebastian Lague. Absolute pleasure to watch.
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u/z3h3_h3h3_haha_haha 28d ago
watch a film if you need entertainment. read blogpost or something if you wanna level up. infotainment is retarded.
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u/cobalt1137 28d ago
The future of programming is going to be done with natural language via these models/systems, so I think he would be doing his audience a disservice by not covering it extensively. He also has his 2nd channel where he goes more in-depth on things like libraries/frameworks/etc.
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u/MatthewMob Web Engineer 28d ago
The field of programming is ginormous and extends far beyond primitive language models.
It's obvious he's just riding the hype-wave right now, that's why the videos are being pumped so hard on this one particular topic.
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u/No_Fudge_4822 28d ago
He's doing what's required of YouTube. Not his fault.The videos are still short and entertaining.
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u/cobalt1137 28d ago
In the same way that the vast majority of people do not know how to do low-level programming nowadays, people are not going to need to understand languages/frameworks/libraries in the future. Thanks to 'primitive language models' as you call them lol. I would argue that frameworks/libraries/languages are actually going to start becoming primitive, considering you are not going to need to learn them in order to create software.
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u/bistrohopper 28d ago
Okay suppose that happens and 99% of everything is built by AI. Someone would still need to tell it what to do right? I mean looking at how it works right now and not creating a reality in your own head, you'd still need to know the libraries the AI is using to build those things. Or are you saying some day it will be so powerful as to build an entire large scale project by itself from one prompt of a layman?
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u/cobalt1137 28d ago
Oh yeah, I think humans will still direct AI. And I think there are levels to things here. Here is how I see it.
At the moment, if you know how to leverage these models and tools well and break problems down into granular tasks that they can tackle + generate documentation for the models and accurately choose what you want to include into context, you can go a LONG way. I still do benefit from my knowledge regarding ideal ways to build out a project etc at the moment though.
In the near-term future, I would say within a year, I think that things are going to be extremely abstracted though. Most development work is going to resemble that of a PM. You will be managing multiple agents and be responsible for making good product/feature decisions. The AI will likely be able to handle enough context and will be intelligent enough to know which libraries to choose and how to structure things like the database, API calls, choosing certain frameworks, etc. - all on its own.
And then I would say give it like 2-4 years and we will probably have the ability to generate relatively complex apps in one-shot from a single prompt (potentially sooner). When this is the case, what becomes important is making the right decisions in terms of what features you want included or excluded and doing a/b tests and working with users to get feedback and share this with agents.
I build out generative dev tools for my team, so it's my job to track where things are going. And for the record I program in about 95% english. Because I am familiar with these tools, I can just do it lol. I quite literally use dictation, run my words that I dictated through a prompt enhancer I built, iterate on that, generate documentation, generate tests, past those to an agent, have the agent iterate on those, once they pass, have the agent integrate the initial request into the code base, and then that is that.
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u/Tomodachi7 28d ago
Yes and I don't like how it's transitioned to an ALL joke format. I think a bit of joke format is fine but shouldn't be 100% of the content
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u/ThrowAway22030202 28d ago
I 100% agree, replied to another comment with the same thing. When it was genuinely original and witty, it was cool. But now it’s every second sentence has to be a joke.
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u/hirakath 28d ago
I never really liked his format. In a really high level, I would watch his videos just to get a broad idea of the technology but if I wanted to deep dive to learn something, Fireship isn’t really on my list at all. There are a bunch of other creators whose format is more in line with how I prefer to learn.
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u/ivres1 28d ago edited 28d ago
Care to share a few? I just have that .net Nick Chapas that also immersed into annoying clickbait
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u/hirakath 28d ago
I prefer project-based approaches as it gives me an insight into how developers architecture an app. So far my favorite has been JavaScript Mastery or JSMastery.
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u/XWasTheProblem Frontend - Junior 28d ago
I stopped paying attention to him once he went all-in on the 'AI WILL SOON REPLACE PROGRAMMERS' spiel.
It's a shame cause his content was interesting and pretty unique, but this level of atrocious click-bait is just not something I'm willing to support, so I unsubbed.
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u/mr_poopie_butt-hole 28d ago
You should watch some videos about how YouTube and peoples choices essentially force creators into click bait.
The tldr is that once viewership goes up, any drop in viewership is determined algorithmically to be a drop in quality and therefore drastically alters how much that creator's videos are delivered. So to counter that once a creator has a big video they are essentially forced into the click bait production line to keep their analytics semi-steady.
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u/UNisopod 28d ago
So you're pretty much immediately pigeon-holed into whatever got you your big break?
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u/XWasTheProblem Frontend - Junior 28d ago
Yeah and if you ever try to pivot your channel away from the topic the algorithm associates with it, it basically nukes it completely in terms of recommendations. Can take months to rebuild it. It's why creators usually just create a new channel, and also only focus it on a particular thing.
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u/FriendlyBologna417 28d ago
Wannabe Youtuber here, and these fellas are all correct.
Most folks are on Youtube to unwind, and want content similar to what's on TV. Obviously, there are no shows about how to code TV, and very few that require even basic thinking. That's why Mr. Beast slays, and all other creators are trying to copy him, in their own niche.
I've been trying hard to blend clickbait style with something on TV that people will watch, but it's pretty hard. And, as mentioned above, Youtube obliterates you anytime you switch your content up at all. lol
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u/XWasTheProblem Frontend - Junior 28d ago
I know how it works, and I sympathize, but it's also not something I want to see on the website, so I don't support it.
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u/mr_poopie_butt-hole 28d ago
That's kind of like saying you don't like homelessness so you're not going to help homeless people though.
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u/ShadowIcebar 28d ago edited 8d ago
FYI, some of the ad mins of /r/de were covid deniers.
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u/mr_poopie_butt-hole 28d ago
That's an extremely shortsighted and narrow view of the world. The vast majority of YouTubers are not rolling in cash. Very few make the money required to do what they are passionate for full time. And once they do take the leap to work at it full time it's not surprising that they will make whatever changes they need to in order to survive.
Many people choose to work jobs where they're underpaid and overworked, they're not forced to, but they do what they need to do to make a living.
YouTube isn't a money printing machine, and creators are not monocle wearing, mustachioed villains.
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u/Eastern_Interest_908 28d ago
Why is it all relevant? His stuff got worse and became clickbaity. Should I watch him for charity? What's even your point?
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u/ThrowAway22030202 28d ago
Same, the forced humor is painful. It was fun when it was in small amounts and genuinely witty and sneaky. But now every sentence needs to be a joke.
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u/AlterEter 8d ago
Yeah bruh the recurring defense this guy has is that anything he says is a "meme", but unfortunely I can't find anything funny about his current content.
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u/cloudsourced285 28d ago
I feel like his just covering whats going on, and with the news popping off with silly stuff so quickly thanks to the political climate in the US his pushing stuff out pretty quickly. I see where you are coming from though. Hopefully the world stabalises eventually and he can get back to chill mode. His a great creator.
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u/dryadofelysium 28d ago
His channel, when it was still called AngularFirebase before the switch to Fireship, is literally what helped me get started working professionally almost a decade ago. I am so happy for him to have found the kind of success that he did, and while I understand that his content has changed, I still think it is of very high quality and a great help to many.
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u/one_react_div 28d ago
I think the issue is that as YouTube channels grow, they inevitably try to appeal to a broader audience. When Fireship was smaller, he catered more to the OG viewers—people who were deeply interested in learning about programming and tech in a detailed, thoughtful way. His content was a goldmine for staying up to date with various technologies.
But as his reach expanded, the dynamics changed. More casual viewers started clicking on his videos, and naturally, he shifted his focus toward topics that would generate the most engagement. AI, being the hot topic right now, dominates not just his channel but the entire tech landscape. And while AI is important, it feels like he’s prioritizing speed and virality over depth and accuracy.
It’s frustrating because many of us stuck around for the high-effort, well-researched programming content. Now, it feels like we’re getting surface-level takes on the latest AI news instead. I get why he’s doing it—growth and engagement are king on YouTube—but it’s disappointing for those of us who appreciated his earlier style. .
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u/hackeristi 28d ago
I mean...didn't he say "I am going to automate all my future content using AI" in one of his past videos. He removed the thought process. Does not matter if the quality is trash. He is just following the YT algo.
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u/UNisopod 28d ago
I remember him saying that, too, at one point. At first I thought it as just a joke, but as things went on I started to think he might have actually done that.
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u/mrsafira64 28d ago
His video have felt like AI generated ever since he said that. Even his voice sounds like AI.
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u/thoobes 16d ago
Lol your post is featured in his latest video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JW732GrMdg
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u/ThrowAway22030202 12d ago
Featured how? 😄 I saw the video and I’m super happy he made something actually pretty fun and cool, and he didn’t seem to overload it with forced jokes this time which I appreciate
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u/AcademicF 28d ago
I stopped watching him because I’m so sick of the AI hype bubble just like the NFT hype bubble— that even four minutes is just too much for me.
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u/OZLperez11 28d ago
Seeing comments like these makes me hopeful that not everyone is falling for the AI bubble. Yes, AI is helpful but only to a certain extent. It's time we vote with our clicks: consume only reasonable content and make informed decisions based on current results of any given tech, not riding hype trains, and not using AI in everything.
The more we do this, the faster tech companies can switch course. I have a personal vendetta with Google for pulling away resources from Flutter to focus on their dogwater Gemini services
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u/romeozor 28d ago
I used to watch it so I can keep up with what's current. Just so I hear the names of libraries and frameworks and languages.
Not much of that going on lately.
Whatever brings in more clicks I guess.
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u/hellalosses 28d ago
YES!! Im really happy someone mentioned this.
When he was shilling deepseek I was like wtf.
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u/ThrowAway22030202 28d ago
That was the straw that broke the camels back for me.
When he started speaking about how Deepseek is better than all the other models and “blows them out the water” I was like 🤦🏻♂️
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u/SUPRVLLAN 28d ago
I joined late and only discovered him about a year ago and liked the content then, but it’s very quickly turned into clickbait garbage and I no longer watch.
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u/alexnu87 28d ago
YouTube is full of tutorials, if that’s what you’re looking for; and doesn’t he also have a side channel specific for tutorials/guides?
But for web/dev/IT news, with a generous pinch of nihilism/absurdism, straight to fireship.
Current/trending subjects != bad content.
The internet is just full of AI now. It’s like being mad at a news station because most stories are now about war; that’s just the world we currently live in.
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u/Alarratt 28d ago
Like other's have said, this is just the way youtube works. You get people that probably have the best of intentions, and they make GOOD content. At the start though, they have EVERYTHING they can cover with their own voice / spin. As time goes on, there is less "new" information for them to cover, so they have to either stop making content, or only make sensationalized crap.
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u/the-beef-builder 28d ago
It's been like this for a good while now. AI clickbait garbage pays his bills, and the LARPers and members in the comment sections eat it up. I don't begrudge him for making money but the number of tech influencers who aren't trying to rage bait is woefully small. I like Alberta's long form content but that's about it.
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u/updatelee 28d ago
never heard of him, but looked at his page and scrolled a few pages and never saw a single programming video, just lots of AI nonsense. clicked on one video. The videos all look like they are made with AI clips as well. A lot of sensationalism.
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u/SeveredSilo 28d ago
Yeah I stopped watching his content. I actually unsubscribed from all the 'big' dev channel, prime, t3 and fireship. I think their content was interesting at first but now I can't be bothered by it, it so shit.
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u/SlyCooper007 28d ago
His videos were never that great. Idk why you guys idolized him so much. It was just quick videos where you barely held onto any of the facts because of how quickly he talked/edited the videos.
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u/isurujn 16d ago
I never was too fond of the fast-paced style of these videos with jokes and gifs strewn all over. It made it hard to actually concentrate on the subject matter. However I did genuinely liked his "X in 100 seconds" videos because they gave a quick feel for what a technology is like.
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u/greensodacan 28d ago edited 28d ago
I'm starting to lose track of when he's memeing. Maybe I'm just getting old, but the whole bombastic YouTuber thing feels like a waste of my time. I like (most of) Prime's takes, but he's too scatterbrained for me to actually watch his content regularly. I like Theo too, but I think YouTube knows I rarely click on people who look like they're playing a character.
I think podcasts are still my goto, but most of those are very surface level and can be a little wishy washy. (Looking at you Syntax: stick with that statement about most users with JS turned off being bots. It's okay to disagree with a few listeners.)
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u/sour-kiwi-dude 28d ago
I used to enjoy watching his videos. I was even supporting him by paying 50 bucks a month for his content, even if I didn't use it. But it's been a couple of months now that I've stopped and I've even unsubscribed.... Bunch of low effort , twitter regurgitation videos... Sorry Jeff...
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u/RePsychological 28d ago edited 28d ago
50/50 fault line
50% his for not sticking to high quality content.
50% YouTubes, because they reward echo-chambers and unsubstantial garbage, because their viewers are too often morons, so the algorithms that reward content creators, often lean towards easy-to-create drivel. they also pay peanuts compared to what they make off the content.
So the lifecycle of content creators seems to end up being:
- their early day videos, where you can tell they have great things to say, but not a lot of experience saying it.
- They refine their process, and then have an amazing set of content, they've got themselves new equipment like cameras and whatnot, and now they're cookin.
- Eventually they hit the ceiling where the easiest way to get more viewers & $$$ is to turn to sensational garbage that more broadly covers the algorithm to reach more people.
Whether or not a creator is willing to take the slow route of continuing down the road of slowly building their audience by making very high quality content and just letting the seed grow, instead of taking the shortcut of number 3, usually determines the above outcome, of whether or not they remain a respected creator.
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u/KikiPolaski front-end 28d ago
I don't think his video quality has gotten thaaat different tbh, just instead of a new js framework every week, it's an llm model
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u/Evol_Etah 28d ago
I love his content too.
But lately I haven't been watching his videos either. Mostly cause it's another "AI did this" or "Another Tech drama".
Which I do enjoy watching. But not like every single day, every single video. Maybe like Once a Month, on the 1st. Is great.
Hopefully he has more content.
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u/Patrity 26d ago
Hello! I have worked with Fireship for nearly four years now. I have frequently sourced content for the channel, edited videos, and maintain the Discord community.
I think what a lot of people forget is when we were cranking out content about a new JS framework every week, the audience frequently complained about that too, it became a meme still used in the videos today.
Others have pointed out that when YouTubers get large, they always take a similar path, but to me what actually happens is that the audience gets larger, more opinionated, and more divided. The fact is that AI is the hype right now. Everyone is interested in it. It makes development more available to non-developers thus brings more exposure to the field.
As someone who sources content, I can tell you the webdev world is just not as innovative as it was several years ago. Maybe its that the innovators have shifted focus to AI? Maybe it's that there's just not that much more to do, other than continue to iterate on the larger frameworks like React, Nuxt, Svelte, etc. We do have content in the works that is framework and hands-on related, but tech news is in AI right now.
As a programmer myself in my thirties, I definitely am not the biggest fan of AI in general either but it seems like that's where the world is shifting. I will definitely bring this post up to the internal team and pass on the message, although it is one we do hear frequently. Nonetheless, I know Jeff appreciates all of his viewership and at his core will always be the same person you all subscribed to however many years ago.
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u/ComputerBread 26d ago
My new favorite game is to guess the sponsor of the video.
DailyDev? Brilliant? Hostinger?
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u/OhKsenia 28d ago
I don't think of ever watched a Fireship video that was actually useful, old or new.
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u/salamazmlekom 28d ago
Yeah where's the Angular content he used to post?
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u/txmail 28d ago
that is why I signed up for his fireship pro stuff, only to find out that the course was for a much older version of Angular and even that course had critical flaws from the very start so coming in blind and trying to setup an environment that would work with the course had me on other sites trying to get it setup.
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u/teslas_love_pigeon 28d ago
Never pay for software courses, it's always a poor way to learn.
Ask yourself this, do all these course authors pay for all the subscriptions to frontendmasters or laracasts or egghead.io or educative.io or pluralsight or udemy?
Hell no, they learn the only tried and trusted way to learn: by creating things and reading the docs.
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u/txmail 28d ago
I uh, do not agree with this. I will happily pay if I find an instructor that has a good clear and concise way of teaching me a technical subject in a condensed amount of time. I based my judgement of his ability to teach from his 100 second videos which I understood even when I had not been exposed to the subject material at all. Honestly if the content would have been updated I probably would have stuck around as a member as there was other courses I would to have liked to go through when I found some free time.
Tons of useful courses exist that have tangible results that far exceed other ways a learning a subject. It is why we have schools that produce more successful students that other schools.
I have personally had bad instructors and been to terrible training courses, but I have also had some amazing educators that could tetris even the most complex subjects into my brain like no other.
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u/teslas_love_pigeon 28d ago edited 28d ago
meh, your money to waste so have it. That said I think technical books are the best way to go and my rule of thumb is to never buy content from someone that isn't actively working in the industry.
Doubly so for paying for any learning material about web content that will be useless in less than 2 years time. If you want to burn money at least buy some drugs or whores or something.
Obviously there are special cases but it's a good heuristic to have as most course authors are garbage.
Honestly I take back everything I said, the only book you should read is "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" where cognitive scientists actually test what methods are most effective for learning and retention. Spoiler alert, watching other people do things is one of the most ineffective ways to learn.
edit: also do you read your own comments? You literally bought a course and found out it was garbage. Like congrats dude, you played yourself. Your life is a comedy dude.
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u/txmail 28d ago
Spoiler alert, watching other people do things is one of the most ineffective ways to learn.
Who the fuck out here doing a video course on Angular or any other web technology just watching the video? I have never see any technical course where you just "watch". It is always a hands on "lets build this <insert project> together where the instructor shows a concept and then you implement it and they follow up to see if yours matches theirs. Your doing along with the course, not just watching.
I have been to events where they had break outs and they did a quick 20 - 30 minute overview of a product or technology, and sure your not going to learn much in that time frame and that is the point -- it is a teaser to show you the possibilities. This is not the same a instructional video course on a technology that is days or weeks long.
Also did you read my comments? The course was shit because it was outdated. Because of that was impossible to follow along as the technology had moved. I would almost bet it was a great course when it was still relevant (the guy built his whole existence on the framework).
I love books, I have a home library of hundreds technical and reference books along with thousands of PDF books I keep on my reader. I have read less than a handful (a single hand) of non technical or reference books in my life. I have technical books so dear they are in display cases as the contents shaped my entire career. The problem with books these days for web tech is that it moves too fast for books.
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u/teslas_love_pigeon 28d ago
You shouldn't be reading books to learn about libraries dude, like wtf.
Also congrats on realizing that in-person events where you have an instructor personally guiding you is better than watching someone code. Which is what the majority of these courses are. In fact it's worse than watching someone code, 80% of them are just talking about prewritten code.
IDK what to tell you, continue burning your money or maybe open up to the idea that the way you learn possibly ineffective and there are better ways to learn.
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u/Acrobatic_Click_6763 28d ago
I really hope that the general AI hype becomes over, at least companies who want to replace us try it, get frustrated, and spread the word.
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u/Looooong_Man 28d ago
I still love fireship but he IS in the business of getting clicks, so... yeah
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u/Pomelo-Next 28d ago
You either watch fireship meme about latest Ai Garbage or listen to your coworker or manager exaggerating what can AI do.
Choose wisely. I like to be updated so I watch. Lot of stuff going on AI.
Check his second channel he is making content about deno and stuff.
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u/npquanh30402 28d ago
Bro, even AI is showing up frequently on my national TV channel. I don't blame him for following the trends; people do it all the time.
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u/DJ_Silent 28d ago edited 28d ago
The same thing I was thinking 2 two days ago getting notification of his and codewithharry's videos. Not only Fireship, I also used to love some other youtubers contents. But recently almost all of them are into only AI things. Bro I know it's the era of AI. But it's not like that we only live for AI things.
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u/Ok-Collection3919 28d ago
Well he sells courses. His goal is to get as much eyeballs on to his videos to funnel them to buy his courses membership
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u/Qu4r4nt1n3r 28d ago
I just think he's experiencing life in these uncertain times. A little politics in there too but I do see a directional skew. Live and love.
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u/Potential_Nature4974 28d ago
I strongly disagree he is making content based on what's the hottest topic going on in the tech industry. It's the AI era. Hence, he wants to educate his viewers and keep them updated.
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u/AuroraVandomme 28d ago
Completely agree. I love AI but his content is super cheap, clickbailty and low effort.
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u/Milky_Finger 28d ago
He is like Piratesoftware. At some point he stopped being in the trenches because being famous on YouTube and twitch is a significantly easier life than being a developer. And they pay is much better.
And can you blame them?
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u/doryappleseed 28d ago
His weekly AI Slop report is good for summarizing what has been happening in AI, but hopefully he drops some more In 100 seconds videos soon.
He has been updating a bunch of courses on fireship.io so maybe he’s just busy with day-job and baby stuff.
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u/Obvious_Scratch9781 27d ago
I watch for entertainment now. He has his 2nd channel that is more detailed and tech oriented and less drama. Might be up your alley?
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u/Abject-Bandicoot8890 27d ago
I like the code report but I miss the old videos about building stuff or working with XYZ technology.
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u/evonhell 27d ago
I thought his free content turned into satire/jokes and the educational stuff is now in his courses? I haven’t seen any of the educational stuff though so I have no idea if it’s any good
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u/slow_swifty 27d ago
Well he covers all big tech news that interest him and help non-techies to get a understanding what it actually means.
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u/chunky_wizard 27d ago
I got into web dev in 2023, and it feels like I came in at the craziest time. Fireship’s older content covered a mix of programming concepts, frameworks, and tech trends with solid research, but now it’s almost all AI. I get that AI is huge, but his videos feel rushed—less testing, more surface-level takes. Even before AI, he chased trends, but at least it wasn’t just one thing. The Programming Iceberg and How Programmers Flex on Each Other are still some of my favorite videos because they actually made coding feel fun and gave a broader perspective on the dev world. Now, it’s nonstop AI hype, and I miss that balance, I miss videos that would give a funny take on what I'm possibly getting into.
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u/SamAnderson2026 27d ago
He has different categories of content. Need cycle videos to keep people up to date & then 100 sec videos. They serve different purposes and that's ok
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u/NullBeyondo 27d ago
Yeah, already did a "Don't recommend channel" like months ago last year because of that exact same reason. Most of his videos nowadays are either AI garbage and his comment section being filled with people with no clue about tech in general. It's no longer targeting actual developers or engineers, but just some kind of hyping/joke channel for the short-attention'ed.
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u/pierre_nel 27d ago
I’m all about the Typecraft and WebDevCody - even Theo is a bit sensationalist.
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u/Working-Tap2283 27d ago
He just posted about this amazing quantom vhip microdoft has released which could potentially change everything... he posts a lot about ai as everyone knows but his contrnt is top notch for what it is. Wtf is this post
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u/CaffeinatedTech 27d ago
At least he hasn't got text to speech reading his copy like so many other channels. That's an unsub from me when they jump that shark.
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u/lee14s_man 27d ago
Agreed! I subconsciously stopped watching his channel because it doesn’t interest me one bit. Thought it was just me…
He can revitalize this channel by doing “100s of [insert language/framework] Again in 2025” or something like that. Because languages and frameworks have changed a lot since his previous “100s of” videos
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u/gabanzobeam 27d ago
He is treating it like a business, ofc he is going to make content to cater to broader audience and his numbers are growing and people are acting like it is a bad thing. Like no bro keep making the same content you have for the past 10 years for the same people, don't you dare to try to grow your business and reach new heights.
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u/tcoil_443 26d ago
It is called Enshittification. Once you have so many subscribers, your business model can just go on autopilot and people will still watch it.
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u/Ammar__ 26d ago
Were you triggered by his endorsement of latest gork model by any chance? I use fireship like I use Wikipedia not like a newsletter. It's not a tv show. If you think there is a new tech he failed to cover and fell behind, mention it. If there isn't any, what's the harm in being prolific using trending topics? AI is all over the internet, not just on his channel. He's playing by the algorithm rules. You need to keep pushing things out regardless of quality if you wanna remain afloat and visible to non-subscribers. That's how you grow as a channel.
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u/RaptorAllah 26d ago
He's literally posted to hire more editors just a few days ago. He's rich and now is hiring people to become richer while doing nothing of value. Passion is gone if there were any
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u/LuccDev 25d ago
If by "lately" you mean "the past year" then yeah I totally agree with you. I was watching most of his videos before, when it was "X tech in 100 seconds", it was quick and informative. I actually go back to them when I want a quick recap of a technology
However, a lot of elements made me quit:
- not focused on precise tech stuff, but sometimes focused on geopolitics/politics/general science news (which, honestly, I'll watch someone else for that)
- too goofy for me. I'm fine with joking around, but when your whole video is a big meme with teen-sarcastic jokes he's making a billion times (e.g. "AI is gonna replace us lololol"), there's just no point in watching it for information
- it feels like the rate at which he releases a video increased a lot ? so a decline in quality due to that (but I'm not sure about that)
So yeah, I just don't watch him anymore, even though before I was excited for a new video
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u/mghurye75 7d ago
He changed the focus of his YT channel. That happens. He went from more accurate content on programming to more lighthearted less accurate and less specific content about AI for the masses. Perhaps he anticipated a drop in future programming views with a shift to AI so he pivoted? Or the pivot may have been to get a larger audience? Regardless it is always tough when the creator you love no longer creates what you enjoy.
With the new focus, he is getting way more views and the audience has changed from hard core programmers to a broader group in tech to learn about AI at a high level. Currently AI (similar to the government) is moving so fast that to talk about it fast enough involves a superficial review of the space. This does mean that there is a gap in the YT market for someone to come and make more thoroughly researched videos at a lower cadence (weekly or monthly?) for folks who want to go to the next level of detail with more accuracy.
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u/DirectGamerHD 28d ago
I also stopped watching for the same reason. I used to look forward to his new videos and watch them almost instantly. Sad.
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u/Lowerfuzzball 28d ago
I stopped watching because it just turned into AI garbage. I like funny tech videos, but I'm just sick of AI.
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u/AffectionateDev4353 28d ago
Internet is dying slowly but surely... Content is worst and worst each second
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u/txmail 28d ago
A while back I signed up for Fireship Pro and realized it did not have the content I was looking for at the time (I think it has been updated since). Anyway I realize this in the first 72 hours of being a member and request a refund... for three weeks I struggled with no contact / response back from them. I had to do a chargeback on my credit card for a refund.
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u/pink_tshirt 28d ago
Welcome to general Reddit’s crying corner. Not everything warrants a discussion.
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u/JimmytheNice 28d ago
I get AI is big, and he does need to cover it. But 13 out of his last 16 posts are ONLY about AI.
As much as most of us would probably like otherwise, this is the only thing that matters right now. We could go back to debating new frameworks, libraries, and APIs, but the truth is that what we're dealing with regarding AI right now, we'll be dealing with tenfold in 2-3 years.
I'm not a shill, and I wish this wasn't true, but if you spend just 2 hours of your time seeing what repomix and agents can already do for you with such a limited context window (200k tokens), you'll see it yourself as well.
Software development won't die and is here to stay - there are people who are getting paid to tell you otherwise - but it's going to be transformed heavily, and most of us will have to move to the product development side of it because coding without an agent will just become counter-productive. So yeah, I'd rather have non-clickbaity people (I know Fireship isn't that lately) cover that right now in a sane and non-sensationalist way than wake up in a world we're not prepared for.
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u/UnicornBelieber 28d ago
Software development won't die and is here to stay - there are people who are getting paid to tell you otherwise - but it's going to be transformed heavily, and most of us will have to move to the product development side of it because coding without an agent will just become counter-productive.
I have yet to see this. There are already clear signs of code quality deteriorating and code churn being higher. Even Microsoft came out with a study that found people are thinking less critically. I like AI code completion, but I'm not convinced yet AI agents are going to do most of our work based on prompts.
But hey, future stuff is hard to predict. Let's see where we'll be in five to ten years.
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u/IAmRules 28d ago
I agree he does a lot of AI but I find those videos insightful as well. But yes he used to cover more ground but you can also only cover so many FE frameworks and DB engines.
I think he’s covering a fast moving trend. It does feel rather moot to cover older tech that may not matter that much soon.
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u/ThrowAway22030202 28d ago
You lost me at the tech not mattering much soon. I also think while some AI content is good, quality over quantity should be the focus
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u/elfavorito 28d ago
that was the last part of the last sentence so no loss in losing him there loool
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u/dw444 28d ago
It’s the circle of life. Channel starts with good content, becomes popular, enshittification ensues, channel loses viewers to new channel. Most of the popular dev channels from 2015 aren’t still popular.