Quoting Josh W. Comeau

# A quote from Josh W. Comeau Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/josh-w-comeau/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/josh-w-comeau/) 3rd July 2026 > 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: 1. 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\. 2. 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/)