Quoting Josh W. Comeau

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.

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 https://bsky.app/profile/joshwcomeau.com/post/3mkxyqgrp2d2t , via Salma Alam-Naylor https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/goodbye-forever-probably/ Tags: 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