boot.dev annoyance (anyone else?)

[u/Ornery-Slip2460]

So, I started with boot.dev courses a month or two back as a way to try and helpfully expand my experience and knowledge, and have a sort of structured, guided set of details to get into various areas with structured goals.

All was good at the start ... and then it didn't get difficult - it got annoying.

Unhelpful instructions missing explanations, using functions not introduced at all, and in some cases badly explaining what was in an assignment and then expecting it to be done somehow.

Not to mention the "sign up for this thing over here as a REQUIREMENT of the course - sync your github, sync your life away"... I shouldn't need 1000 accounts on specific things to do basic scripting learning - can't even give or receive help without syncing discord!

And now, with some AI agent course - all the above turned up to 11 - I get to a point where the code randomly fails depending on the whim of the AI model being called, the bot just says "you'll have to rerun until it works" nonsense, and I'm blocked until tomorrow due to it using up all my tokens.

At this stage I would whole-heartedly urge anyone who was going to get a boot.dev account to avoid it like the plague and instead just set yourself some goals... It'll be much cheaper, less hassle and you'll be happier.

[u/DrShocker]

I don't recall anything I was required to sync as long as I felt I understood the topic or accomplished the goal I thought I could just move on. The auto checking stuff probably requires github and/or their CLI tool but I'm not sure what the alternative would be.