5/17/2026 at 7:39:41 AM
by mmarian
5/17/2026 at 1:43:24 PM
> The traffic to my blog and my books (which were free to read online) increased beyond what I can currently afford.Unrelated to the rest of what's being said but I don't see how that could cost more than $2-5 a month to host?
by pixel_popping
5/17/2026 at 1:40:07 PM
It pretty clear that the days of open-publishing are over. Your work merely goes into feeding Anthropic & OpenAI's bottomline.Priced & closed digital publication with a notice of "This reading license is for pure human consumption only - kindly contact the publisher for AI usage", is going to become more and more popular.
by lenkite
5/18/2026 at 12:51:20 AM
every preface should be a prompt injectione RCE .by cyanydeez
5/17/2026 at 3:02:39 PM
This is absolutely a tragedy. Dr. Rauschmayer's work is unparalleled in detail and accuracy, and the JavaScript community is worse without it freely available. I completely understand his reasoning. It just makes me sad.by jazzypants
5/17/2026 at 12:40:32 PM
Unfortunate outcome, don't see any way out though. Think we have to accept that discovery via Google/ LLMs is dead. Best way is to share blogs in forums/socials, and hope people sign up (RSS/newsletter). But there's going to be much lower demand as well, and you'll have to have a really good justification as to why people can't get similar content from an LLM.by mmarian
5/17/2026 at 10:08:01 AM
Maybe he should just get wordpress unlimited, like the guy who get's automatically flooded everytime someone uses archive[.]todayby pogue
5/17/2026 at 7:47:50 AM
Not mine. Added to the actual site title the AI part, just because it makes the subject clearer.by mmarian
5/17/2026 at 10:23:42 AM
At what point will we create micro tolls that AI must pay?by drooby
5/17/2026 at 12:34:09 PM
They won't, individual content just isn't that valuable and they have plenty of choice; I say this as a blog owner (albeit tiny). Cloudflare is trying something related to this; I wrote a post on why it won't work https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202507/cloudflare-pay-per...by mmarian
5/17/2026 at 8:46:12 AM
I don't understand, how did AI cause the sales to drop to nothing?by stavros
5/17/2026 at 11:48:52 AM
Axel thinks that scrapers have aggregated his content, and now, potential readers doing searches or queries on AI assisted systems, see the scraped content rather than his website.by jbreckmckye
5/17/2026 at 10:04:40 AM
He didn't say that.by MForster
5/17/2026 at 12:30:15 PM
> I’m taking my blog and my books offline so that I can decide what to do next – especially w.r.t. AI companies stealing my workWhy would he take down his content if it's not due to AI?
by mmarian
5/17/2026 at 1:02:16 PM
He said the crawlers were costing him money. Maybe stealing could be viewed as avoiding the ads? Don't know what license he had on his publicly available content, but if his site was not being crawled heavily, then it sounds like he might not have taken it all down. I wonder about hosting it on Github / GH-pages or something. Maybe at some volume it becomes a problem or maybe they disallow ads which he wants to profit from?I used to follow him years ago and liked his content but I drifted away long before AI.
I wonder given his deep expertise how much he could get into teaching how to spot and fix bad AI JS code.
by jostylr
5/17/2026 at 10:11:33 AM
Then the title of this post desperately needs changing.by stavros
5/17/2026 at 10:39:51 AM
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