Something critical surfaced in the Daily Pulse of Top AI News Today's July 6th run, and I wanted to share it here.
It signals a deep shift in the computer coding education industry, something I anticipated when I first began my journey into Assisted Software Development (ASD).
Coding as a Viable Education Path is Trending Down
Educator Josh Comeau reported that his third course launch is tracking at one-third of historical sales and his existing course revenue is down >50%.
This is a clear dollar-denominated signal that AI coding tools are compressing the addressable market for developer education faster than new learners can replace it.
The cause is a dual demand collapse:
Potential buyers doubt that developer careers have a future.
Those who want to learn use LLMs instead of paid courses.
Practitioners building developer-facing education products or communities should treat this trend as an overall shift in demand:
The market for paid developer skill-building is contracting as LLMs absorb both the content and the use case.
My Personal Reflection on Coding Education
This was exactly my experience. In December 2025, I was on the fence about buying a course to learn Python, but instead, I decided to just start building and see what happens.
I began with no-code tools like Replit and Make, but didn't like the errors they made and the long debugging loops that resulted. So, I decided to take more of a traditional developer approach, building everything from scratch but using frontier model LLMs, specifically Claude and Claude Code, as my guide. I provide the vision and the architectural framework, and the bots provide the code.
Since then, I've built over a dozen functional programs for personal, commercial, and client use.
But none of this means that coding as a career is dead. Instead, it's a clear indication that the practitioner base is opening up while simultaneously shifting, revealing these two things as market truths:
Anyone with a good idea and a willingness to plant their ass in front of a screen and work through the process alongside an LLM can bring their idea to life.
Anyone who's built a well-functioning, practical piece of software and can explain their idea in non-technical terms can sell their product to those who can use it.
It's also putting ordinary people at the forefront of developmental architecture and software engineering. The future now belongs not only to those with a good idea, but also to those who can clearly communicate it to frontier models and a potential client base.
Happy ASD, y’all!
-BottBott
