Tailwind Labs licencie malgré son succès : l'IA change la donne
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Tailwind Labs a contribué à créer les conditions de sa propre disruption.
Plus la documentation était bonne, mieux les modèles l’ont assimilée.
Plus le framework était populaire, plus les données d’entraînement étaient riches.
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#IA #DesastreSocial #licenciement #Tailwind #TailwindCSS #Web
A lot of the discourse about #Tailwind has been "How did they even expect to scale anyway?"
l know our industry doesn't understand this, but not everything has to "scale". Keeping a small team comfortably employed, working on something they enjoy with people they like _is_ a success story.
A business isn't a failure if it isn't growing.
Wichtiges Blogposting von @leitmedium am Beispiel von Tailwind CSS. OpenSource-Projekten bricht durch KI ihr Geschäftsmodell und damit die Finanzierung weg: https://www.leitmedium.de/2026/01/09/das-drohende-ende-von-opensource-projekten-durch-llms-am-beispiel-von-tailwind/
#LLMs killing #OpenSource projects sucks big time, no doubt about it. But am I really going to miss #Tailwind?
Short answer:
No.
Long answer:
<button class="inline-flex h-10 min-w-12 items-center gap-x-1.5 rounded-md bg-black px-2.5 py-1.5 text-sm font-semibold text-white shadow-sm focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:outline-indigo-600 hover:bg-indigo-500aaa">No.</button>
75% of Tailwind's engineering team was laid off yesterday.
Despite record growth, their docs traffic is down 40% since early 2023 because of LLMs. No doc visits = no exposure to commercial products = 80% revenue drop.
We are watching a fundamental shift in how dev tools survive (or don't) in the age of AI. A must-read for anyone in the industry.
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957
#Tailwind #WebDevelopment #AI #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #TechLayoffs #CSS #FOSS #Web #Software #Dev
A lot of the discourse about #Tailwind has been "How did they even expect to scale anyway?"
l know our industry doesn't understand this, but not everything has to "scale". Keeping a small team comfortably employed, working on something they enjoy with people they like _is_ a success story.
A business isn't a failure if it isn't growing.
Heartbreaking update from #tailwindcss. They had to lay off 75% of their staff yesterday due to #AI driven losses.
I really don't see how the #OpenSource industry survives this. The days of making your source and your docs open to the public is quickly disappearing.
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957
A lot of the discourse about #Tailwind has been "How did they even expect to scale anyway?"
l know our industry doesn't understand this, but not everything has to "scale". Keeping a small team comfortably employed, working on something they enjoy with people they like _is_ a success story.
A business isn't a failure if it isn't growing.
75% of Tailwind's engineering team was laid off yesterday.
Despite record growth, their docs traffic is down 40% since early 2023 because of LLMs. No doc visits = no exposure to commercial products = 80% revenue drop.
We are watching a fundamental shift in how dev tools survive (or don't) in the age of AI. A must-read for anyone in the industry.
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957
#Tailwind #WebDevelopment #AI #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #TechLayoffs #CSS #FOSS #Web #Software #Dev
"But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month."
Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind.
｢ Tailwind is a tool. It's not a religion or a way of life. Get off your high horse and stop obsessing over a fucking hammer, I promise your life is not full of nails.
Just git gud at CSS. We believe in you ｣
Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind.
｢ Tailwind is a tool. It's not a religion or a way of life. Get off your high horse and stop obsessing over a fucking hammer, I promise your life is not full of nails.
Just git gud at CSS. We believe in you ｣
“If you are enamored by atomic CSS and Tailwind, there’s a good chance you’re not taking full advantage of both CSS and HTML. In other words, you think you know CSS and HTML, but you don’t.”
Scouting material for @frontenddogma.
“If you are enamored by atomic CSS and Tailwind, there’s a good chance you’re not taking full advantage of both CSS and HTML. In other words, you think you know CSS and HTML, but you don’t.”
Scouting material for @frontenddogma.
Nuxt is so dang amazing, I love it.
I've built 3 production websites with it so far this year ✨
https://joinloops.org
https://fedidb.com
https://fediverse.info
The new Pixelfed UI will be the 4th 😉
