AI can solve LeetCode in seconds. Is writing coding tutorials still worth it?

This article is based on my own experience and observations. Maybe, if the website is still alive, I’ll come back to this article in six months and update it with the results I have at that time.

I run a small website called AlgoBytes, where I write about algorithms, coding interview patterns, and LeetCode problems. A detailed solution post can easily take me from 30 minutes to an hour to write, format, check, and publish. Here, I don't take into account the time spent solving the problem.

Meanwhile, I can give the same problem to an AI assistant and get a working solution with an explanation in seconds.
That made me ask a simple question: why am I still doing this, and should I keep doing it?

I decided not to guess. I started watching what actually happens to the articles I publish on AlgoBytes - whether Google indexes them, whether people search for these solutions, and whether anyone actually clicks them.

Almost all of my solution posts reached the top 10 in Google search results, even though there are many big competitors in this niche. There are specialized websites, YouTube channels, and many posts on different platforms dedicated to solving specific LeetCode problems.

For a very young website, getting stable positions on the first page of Google looks like a good result. But at the time of writing this post, those positions haven't brought me any real traffic.

Maybe the way I present the material also affects the results. I intentionally decided not to write long step-by-step explanations of how to solve each problem. Instead, I tried to explain the main idea of the solution in 5 - 10 sentences.

In my opinion, with a short explanation like this and ready-to-use solutions in popular languages such as C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript, a reader can analyze the code and understand the solution on their own. I think this can be more useful than simply reading a complete step-by-step explanation where everything has already been explained for them.

Still, I think I will experiment with both formats in the future.

But I don't think the format is the main reason why being near the top of the search results doesn't bring much traffic.

The main reason, in my opinion, is AI.

You can get a solution to almost any coding problem in almost any programming language in a few seconds, together with a detailed explanation of how the solution works and why it works.

Even when AI gives links to websites where you can read a more detailed explanation, the answer generated directly by AI is probably enough for most users. They simply don't need to click another link.

On top of that, if the search results already have two strong competitors and a YouTube video block above you, the chances that even an interested user will scroll down and click the third, fourth, or fifth result become much lower.

I still don't know whether AlgoBytes will be worth the time I put into it. But that's exactly why I'm continuing the experiment.