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Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
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You might want to clarify that Adam responded to someone commenting about another individual being laid off from Laracasts; he did not call the individual who was laid off an idiot
Common problem with HI (Human Intelligence). We call it “hallucinations” or “confabulations”.
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#113Honestly I think that they should be putting Tailwinds Plus and consulting services first. Sucks that AI is making the web itself obsolete now.
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hm, families need to eat.
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#115Very sad. Any OSS project that depend fully on consulting will be on high risk. Platforms like deepwiki shrinks the knowledge gap massively.
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#116As a fellow business owner, I’ll always feel bad when business owners need to make these types of decisions. I bought Tailwind UI - I always thought it was a critically bad business decision from their end to keep giving me additional new stuff for free. It seemed to me that it should have been a subscription. However, knowing nothing about the inside of their business, I have no idea how that would have affected the…
> It seemed to me that it should have been a subscription.
The one time fee should have been for personal licenses, and a annual subscription for businesses.
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
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WTF?
So your answer to "how should open source projects achieve financial sustainability" is "don't even try"?
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I logged in just to tell you you're being a non-empathic ass. What have _you_ created that makes money sustainably? What challenges have _you_ navigated around AI driving traffic to your docs down by 80%? Some people...
Personal attacks are against the rules here.
and you don't think adamwathan deserves the same respect?
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#119How does something like Tailwind lead to a company big enough that you can layoff 75% of the engineering team?
I don’t know how big the “team” was, but 75% suggests maybe 4 engineers, one left. The next number up that works is 8, and 8 full time engineers to work on tailwind seems like a lot.
Listened to the podcast, it was 3 laid off.