I prefer reading articles over watching videos. Videos take forever to get to the point.

> Videos take forever to get to the point.

I feel the same with this article.

This is such a common annoyance on the modern internet. I've recently been playing Minecraft with my kids, with a few mods, and I've been irritated to discover that - unlike when I'd mess around with mods a decade ago - lots of the "documentation" for mods now exists only in video form.

Anyway, I built / slopped out this little wrapper for yt-dlp that I call tuber[1], and it has a feature for grabbing a video's subtitles and summarizing them with Claude, if you've got the CLI. I've found it really handy for those annoying cases where some video seems to promise info I want but I don't want to sit through ten minutes of bullshit.

[1]: https://github.com/epiccoleman/tuber

you could also use openai whisper for transcription. takes longer but beats bad subtitles

yeah, but some people don't want to, or can't watch a video, and prefer reading.

I think their point is why not have an actual source?

The guy who made the video is (was?) a pilot, so I think he's as good a primary source as we would often deem acceptable for something like this.

Yeah, I'd rather read a 2 minute article than have someone stretch the explanation to 10 minutes for ad revenue or the algorithm or whatever the current YouTube enshitrification meta is.