{"slug": "quoting-josh-w-comeau", "title": "Quoting Josh W. Comeau", "summary": "Course creator Josh W. Comeau reports that his third course, Whimsical Animations, is selling roughly one-third as many copies as typical launches, with overall course revenue down 50% or more. He attributes the decline to AI, citing developer job uncertainty and competition from LLMs that provide personalized tutoring and regurgitate creators' work without consent or compensation.", "body_md": "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.\n\nIt’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year.\n\nThere are likely a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest is AI. There’s sort of a double whammy with AI:\n\n- 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.\n- 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.\n[...] 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.\n\n— [Josh W. Comeau](https://bsky.app/profile/joshwcomeau.com/post/3mkxyqgrp2d2t), via [Salma Alam-Naylor](https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/goodbye-forever-probably/)\n\nTags: [ai-ethics](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [careers](https://simonwillison.net/tags/careers), [josh-comeau](https://simonwillison.net/tags/josh-comeau)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-josh-w-comeau", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/josh-w-comeau/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-07-03 21:25:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-03 21:49:54.491156+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics", "generative-ai", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Josh W. Comeau", "Whimsical Animations", "Salma Alam-Naylor"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-josh-w-comeau", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-josh-w-comeau.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-josh-w-comeau.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-josh-w-comeau.jsonld"}}