The State of Tech Education in the AI Age

I’ve been reading a few concerning things about tech education recently. Namely: Cassie Evans took down her site Salma (whitep4nth3r) stopped streaming, and it’s going dark too The state of affairs for tech education is bleak. Even popular course producers like Josh Comeau reported that his course sales are about 1/3 of what they used to be. This sort of thing isn’t new. Earlier in May, Geoff wrote an article attempting to describe the state of things, and also to pick everyone up. All these make me wonder whether I should continue doing tech-ed. Or maybe I should put all my energy into other things instead. I’m A Poor Quitter So Far I’m oddly stubborn, or persistent, if you’d like to paint that in a brighter light, that I don’t really quit things. I try to complete goals I set out to accomplish. Even if I fail, I tend to trudge along the same path until I finish it up… In the past, I’ve set myself a goal to teach HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Node. I’ve done that through Essential CSS,…