I don't have time to watch him regularly, but I really enjoy that he can both walk the walk as well as pontificate on a variety of programming topics.

There are a lot of coding streamers/influencers who don't have the breadth and depth he does, nor the high level experience at a top tech company. They either did a year at Meta and became full time streamers, or are purely competitive programmers, but ThePrimeagen hits the sweet spot for me.

I think he's a great example for lots of engineers everywhere, especially those who are just getting into the idustry. He didn't have an easy path either of just getting a FAANG internship and job right out of college, he had to work his way up to where he is now.

I used to like him but started to feel he keeps ranting about very similar topics a lot:

1. neovim >>> vscode

2. X > JS (X=Rust, Go, OCaml etc)

I feel he doesn't do justice to his seniority and breadth of knowledge.

He, for sure, knows a ton. Yet chooses to waste streams on noob topics like editor wars, programming language wars etc.

I much prefer Theo-T3 because he finds interesting topics and really explores tech in depth.

There's some strong views about ThePrimeagen in this thread. Just want to share my experience. I've spent tonnes of time configuring Vim, Neovim etc. Its ... a ... mess.

I love both editors and for the love of me, I don't know why configuring them is soooo hard and brittle.

ThePrimeagen videos on Vim/Neovim is by far information dense videos. It took me sometime to ignore his style of presentation and just focus on content. However, the value I got out of watching his videos is undeniable. Knowing his background a bit and how he battled addiction gave me some context. (Sorry can't find that video on his channel now)

Continuing on this topic of Vim/Neovim ...

Leeren Chen (https://www.youtube.com/@leeren_) is pure genius on the topic of configuring Vim. I've never seen another person like him on Youtube, who uses Vimscript to configure Vim to make it work like an IDE (almost).

[1] https://youtu.be/JFr28K65-5E [2] https://youtu.be/Gs1VDYnS-Ac

TJ Devries (https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv) videos on Neovim are awesome too (He's core dev of Neovim). But there's lot of gimmicks in his video and it can put people off. His videos with @BashBunni is very approachable in terms of learning about and configuring Neovim.

He's a Troll and authoritarian. At first he was kind-of entertaining, but he's full of himself and thinks he knows it all.

And his stupid, nonsensical editor wars.

The more I watched him to more u disliked him and eventually unfollowed.

And his noob topics are boring as well. He's pretty much the average HN user, only more experienced. He believes the hype. Like htmx is hyped so he does htmx.

His streams provide nothing for me in terms of new information that us useful.

I like to watch his blog post reads on YouTube.

+1, he is entertaining :)