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Quoting Josh W. Comeau

ID

2576

Status

new

Published

04 Jul 2026, 5:25 AM

Fetched

04 Jul 2026, 6:20 AM

Provider

Simon Willison

Category

developer-ai

Original URL

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/josh-w-comeau/

Source URL

https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/

Excerpt

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year. There are likely a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest is AI. There’s sort of a double whammy with AI: Many people are wondering whether developer jobs will even exist in a few months, so they’re reluctant to spend time/money learning new dev skills. Even if they do want to learn new dev skills, LLMs can provide personalized tutoring, so there’s less incentive to buy a paid course. [...] I’ve spoken to a few course creators now, and we’re all seeing the same trend. Revenue down 50%+. Fewer people engaging with our content. People switching to LLMs, which slurp up all of our work and regurgitate it, without consent or compensation. — Josh W. Comeau, via Salma Alam-Naylor Tags: ai-ethics, llms, ai, generative-ai, careers, josh-comeau