The death of web development education

Generative AI is rapidly undermining the economics of web development education, training, and technical publishing, with many independent educators, course creators, and DevRel professionals seeing traffic and revenue collapse as audiences shift from human-authored materials to AI-generated answers. For CIOs and technology leaders, this signals a broader change in how technical skills are learned and maintained: organizations may gain faster access to information, but they also risk lower-quality knowledge, weaker human expertise pipelines, and overreliance on AI outputs that can be inaccurate or unvetted. IT leaders should expect the external learning ecosystem to shrink and plan to invest more deliberately in trusted internal enablement, review processes, and curated upskilling paths.