GoKawiilIndependent web-dev educators report income collapse as AI crawlers replace readers
Developer Baldur Bjarnason writes that his training courses and ebook sales have dried up, alongside peers who ran similar businesses, as AI chatbots become the default way developers seek coding help. JavaScript writer Axel Rauschmayer says his book income fell from sustaining him in 2024 to zero in 2026, while traffic to his free online books surged from AI crawlers rather than human readers, prompting him to take his blog and books offline.