I've realized over time that I personally cannot learn from video at all. Even "great" lectures don't stick. Text does!

Being able to skim, jump around, re-read a paragraph or pause on a single sentence is how understanding actually forms for me.

What’s interesting is that LLMs lean hard into this strength of text, they make it interactive, searchable, and contextual.

To me, most of these platforms have optimized video for engagement. Its essentially "press play and hope it sticks".

The dream never dies, possibly because people remember when class time was supplanted by a movie. Anyone remember "I Am Joe's Heart"? Those movies showed that you could just sit and watch passively like TV, and you'd learn quite a bit, with professional diagrams and animations to help.

Yet your comment is true. Perhaps the difference is that science is inherently interesting because nature is confined to things that are consistent and make sense, while the latest security model for version 3.0 of this-or-that web service protocol, vs. version 2.0, is basically arbitrary and resists effective visual diagramming. Learning software (not computer science) is an exercise in memorizing things that aren't inherently interesting.