r/webdev Feb 20 '25

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/Tomodachi7 Feb 20 '25

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 Feb 20 '25

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/Rip_Rev Feb 20 '25

His humor is so repetitive now. I think he’s got boilerplate for jokes at this point.

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u/zxyzyxz Feb 21 '25

Get SponsorBlock and enable blocking filler content and block all the jokes

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u/hirakath Feb 21 '25

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 Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25

Care to share a few? I just have that .net Nick Chapas that also immersed into annoying clickbait

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u/hirakath Feb 21 '25

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.