LLMs made text the primary medium again, upending the assumed video-first future
DevToD4 · x · 2026-08-16
DevToD4 observes that LLMs have completely shifted us into text as the primary medium. He had been convinced that YouTube — and video more broadly — was the way of the future, and now admits he was wrong: in the generative AI era, reading and writing text is once again the core vehicle for information and interaction.
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