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Do you have an example of such a skill that has been compressed?

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2022: “Thanks viewing my part 1 of 9 introductory video on how to master regex….”

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Ironically, your answer is very well compressed.

That's great if you don't want to understand what's going on under the hood, becoming the 2023 version of factory workers in Ford's assembly line.

True but the dev’s of the 80’s understood transistors and other things i never needed to know as a millennial. As these things get abstracted, complexity keeps increasing at the top of the stack so thats what’s keeps us employed (for now)

Recipe tiktoks are like 30 seconds long - faster to watch the whole thing than scrolling to find the recipe on a bloated blogspam recipe site.

I see recipes Tiktoks get readily debunked in longer-form content, such as by channels like "How To Cook That"¹; the Tiktoks amount to little more than content farming. What real information might be present is drowned out by fakes and bad advice that exist for no other reason than to soak up eyeballs.

I get far more out of longer-form videos, IMO.

(And yes, the bloated recipe blogspam is also a form that is rapidly approaching 0 bytes of information per byte transferred.)

¹(even this is "cheap" content, IMO; debunking stuff leaves the viewer back where they started, although How To Cook That specifically will occasionally show the "no, here's how you actually do this, and it takes less time than the tiktok's "time saver"." There's an endless stream of junk to debunk, so you don't really have to worry about running out, per se.)

Most longer form videos about food are half filler, mostly to appease youtube ads.

Huh, the two recipes I tried came out great.

Any examples of fake tiktok recipes? All the top "How To Cook That" debunking videos seem to be about other youtube videos or just weird food videos that aren't recipes.

I follow some YouTubers that try to recreate TikTok recipes and most of them come out just fine. If you're an experienced cook, it's really easy to judge whether a recipe is gonna be decent or not.

I wouldn't call them fake recipes, but here is a youtube channel that is highlighting Tik Tok cooking videos, some of which seem to be just for the video... that is, I don't believe even the people showing those "recipes" are eating that.

https://www.youtube.com/@tanaradoublechocolate/videos

there's no way anyone just watches a 30s recipe clip one time and then goes and replicates the dish.

I watch them once to decide if I want to make it.

Once immediately before starting.

Then once-or-twice with a lot of pausing and seeking while cooking.

Doesn't sound very different from Grandma's recipe cards in terms of information density, potentially harder to follow if you have to deal with video playback. Recipe blogs also have compressed instructions, so it's not like you need to read all the fluff, but when first stumbling upon a recipe, a short video is definitely better at grabbing your attention and showing you the major points and the result, in a way that traditional blogs and cooking sites fail to replicate. Video is also better for conveying technique, but I prefer paper or cards while cooking something that's not completely new to me, for fewer handwashing interruptions.

I literally achieved that multiple times.

Yeah? If it is a variation on a recipe I know?

Almost all of those sites have a Jump to Recipe button though, and TikTok recipe videos often miss a lot of important details...

If you cook often, you can usually infer the details. The same is true for recipe sites and books, but at a different level of detail.

Usually when I use a tiktok cooking video, I'm not really "following" it, but just using it to get a general idea then riffing on it.

That only works for dishes that are related or similar to other dishes you've made in the past.

As soon as a banana leaf, raw fish, etc etc enters the picture you'll want to read the long form. Also if you want to actually get better at cooking, tiktoks just won't cut it as there's no time to discuss all the nuances - and quality food is an amalgamation of many small nuances.

A lot of people find it easier to follow technique demonstrated on video than described in text

That's ~15 seconds EACH TIME you want to add the next ingredient and forgot the amount compared to scanning a receipe list which for a split second.

just pause on the ingredients, its not that hard

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