This isn’t coming out of nowhere:
These are all folks I deeply admire and I’d be lying if I said I disagreed with any of that. The fact is, demand for front-end technical writing has significantly dropped, and has been for some time. Just look at our stats for yourself:
I’m not embarrassed to share this because it’s happening across the board. I mean, it’s the same thing over at Stack Overflow as we’ve already discussed in depth. I work with other content creators and publications and it’s also the same story.
Naturally, I tend to take personal responsibility for this sort of thing, but it’s hard not to see that the root cause might be out of my hands:
Source: 2025 AI Index, Stanford HAI
