I keep seeing the same question from developers who write:
Has the audience for technical articles disappeared?
It feels like it sometimes.
People do not Google the same way. They ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, or whatever assistant is embedded in their IDE. Search result pages now answer before the click. AI summaries turn a ten-minute tutorial into a three-sentence response. Your carefully written post may become invisible context inside someone else's answer.
So it is tempting to conclude:
