Will this change the situation of the 75% of engineers who just got laid off, or is this just to fund the framework, rather than the Tailwind Plus team?
It's just a temporary PR move
Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
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#12I suppose this an attempt to try and head off the stories about "AI" killing open source
Google has poured untold millions into open source over the last couple of decades, not just by sponsorships, but also by employing contributors, etc.
I don't think that'll change with AI. They just needed to be reminded about the financials of Tailwind and I'm sure it was an easy conversation internally.
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#13Damn that was fast. Github comments flamewar delivers.
Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
#14This is good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that Tailwind is out of the financial difficulty that we talked about yesterday. You can sponsor Tailwind for as little as $6,000/year. 29 companies were already sponsoring Tailwind including 16 companies at the $60,000/year level. Maybe Google AI Studio has decided to shell out a lot more, but it could also be a relatively small sponsorship compared to the $1.1M in sponsorships that Tailwind is already getting. Google has deep pockets and could easily just say "f-it, we're betting on AI coding and this tool helps us make UIs and $2M/year is nothing compared to what we're spending on AI." It's also possible that the AI Studio team has a small discretionary budget and is giving Tailwind $6,000/year.
It's good, but it's important to read this as "they're offering some money" and not "Tailwind CSS now doesn't have financial issues because they have a major sponsor." This could just be a 1-5% change in Tailwind's budget. We don't know.
And that's not to take away from their sponsorship, but on the heels of the discussion yesterday it's important to note that Tailwind was already being sponsored by many companies and still struggling. This is a good thing, but it's hard to know if this moves the needle a bunch on Tailwind's problems. Maybe it'll be the start of more companies offering Tailwind money and that'd be great.
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#15Will this change the situation of the 75% of engineers who just got laid off, or is this just to fund the framework, rather than the Tailwind Plus team?
This is the real question
Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
#16This is good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that Tailwind is out of the financial difficulty that we talked about yesterday. You can sponsor Tailwind for as little as $6,000/year. 29 companies were already sponsoring Tailwind including 16 companies at the $60,000/year level. Maybe Google AI Studio has decided to shell out a lot more, but it could also be a relatively small sponsorship compared to the $1.1M in spons…
I would think Tailwind could keep 3 engineers around if they are getting sponsorship of over $1m/yr.
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#17Doesn't matter to me, as I stopped using Google AI a few months ago because of their lack of respect for my time when creating a freaking API...
what do you mean?
Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
#18I suppose this an attempt to try and head off the stories about "AI" killing open source
Well that and the fact that LLMs love using Tailwind, which puts the vendors in an awkward spot if the Tailwind project implodes.
Makes you wonder how much ossification is going to happen because AI models are entrenched in 2023's tooling du jour.
Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
#19I suppose this an attempt to try and head off the stories about "AI" killing open source
Google has poured untold millions into open source over the last couple of decades, not just by sponsorships, but also by employing contributors, etc. I don't think that'll change with AI. They just needed to be reminded about the financials of Tailwind and I'm sure it was an easy conversation internally.
> Google has poured untold millions into open source over the last couple of decades, not just by sponsorships, but also by employing contributors, etc.
And Google has profited untold hundreds of billions of open source over the last couple of decades. They just need to be reminded of it.
Edit: Haha, getting downvoted! Never underestimate the power of tens of thousands of Googlers on HN... Look, I use Gmail, Google maps, Chrome and Android and occasionally Google search but without Linux, Java and webkit it wouldn't exist.
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#20Will this change the situation of the 75% of engineers who just got laid off, or is this just to fund the framework, rather than the Tailwind Plus team?
Hopefully! Turns out 75% was of four total developers. Ideally Google would be giving them enough to re-hire three people.
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