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Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by schnitzelstoat on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:46AM (#49843258)
Given we can write the documents in LLMs and summarise/explain the documents with LLMs one would hope we would go back to written documents instead of videos now.

Instead we've worked out how to get the LLM to make videos.

Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by bonoboTP on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:05AM (#49843458)
People are bad at writing clearly what a new startup or product actually does. A video is a richer medium, it can show the thing being used, the UI during use, tell a clearer story with a person using it, some context etc. It also forces them to prioritize more, and have to distill their message down to a certain bounded timeframe.

Neither gives any guarantee. Both static text and videos can be done well and badly. But I usually find it useful to have both. A video is like being guided through their vision of what the thing is (a "push" message). This can be annoying to many nerd types who want to cut through all that and just want to "pull" the info they need, for themselves, at their own fast pace, quickly identifying it and not being spoonfed. But the typical user is not like this, and prefers the spoonfed/edutained approach.

Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by ModernMech on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:23AM (#49843657)
>But I usually find it useful to have both.

Yes that's the trick. And much more. If you have any sort of content, you should express it as a slideshow, a white paper, a blog post, a video, a podcast, etc. Get it out in as many forms as you can. Maybe even performative dance or song if you've got that energy.

Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by transitorykris on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:16AM (#49845030)
Or just write one gnarly detailed form and let the consumer generate the form that works best for them (preferably with their own local model)
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by jghn on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:40AM (#49846118)
I was getting ready to rant when reading your "A video is a richer medium" line, and then read the whole thing and saw you followed up with a point explaining exactly why: "just want to "pull" the info they need, for themselves, at their own fast pace, quickly identifying it"

Needless to say, usually if my choices are video or nothing, I'll choose nothing and figure it out myself.

Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by bananaflag on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:51AM (#49843315)
Yeah because people don't like to read. They do it if they're forced to but no more.
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by AdamN on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:50AM (#49843922)
12.4% of the world is illiterate and I'd guess more like 20% would have trouble quickly taking text and turning that into instructions faster than a video could do the same thing.
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by LastTrain on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:52AM (#49843949)
An illiterate person has no interest in a 3 minute video on how to enable paste mode in VIM
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by fapjacks on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:42AM (#49846139)
A video about exiting vim, however...
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos by LanceH on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:26AM (#49844328)
The illiteracy seems to carry straight into video production. There are way too many 15 minute videos for 4 lines of instructions.