The death of web development education
Educator Baldur Bjarnason and author Axel Rauschmayer discuss the decline of the web development education market due to generative AI. They argue that AI crawlers are cannibalizing their content and ad revenue, forcing creators to take their work offline.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing tension between independent content creators and AI companies regarding intellectual property and economic viability.
In a personal blog post, Baldur Bjarnason describes how he worked in various fields and positions: as an author, publisher, consultant, developer, educator, as well as radio and TV producer. None of these jobs were economically viable in the long term.
Adding insult to injury, the respective communities alienate interdisciplinary people who do not fit into their narrow conception of the field. For example, either you are considered as too “technical” for a “creative” job or too “creative” for “technical” job.
Bjarnason describes the impact of generative AI on web development education:
[All] my training and education projects had dropped off one by one. Most of my peers who had been selling courses and training were shutting down their businesses. The demand for web dev ebooks had cratered. […]
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