75% is how many people?
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Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
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Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#60275% is how many people?
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#603>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.
Wow that is just, really tragic... AI continues to just decimate this industry. Everyday I'm happy that I am, and have been since about day 3, an AI-hater.
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#604I absolutely love Tailwind CSS, big fan of Adam, too, just watching his journey over the past several years. I'm a bootstrapped solopreneur, too, doing an open core business for my dotnet job orchestrator Didact. It's so difficult running a business, I feel for him and his engineers he had to let go. Maybe they can build some sort of app to go along with Tailwind. Heck, even if they made the base library itself paid one day, I'd probably pay for it. Using Tailwind is just that good for me.
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#605Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you modify your style tag to make the background turn purple on a mobile device? No? Ok.
If that's your goal, you probably shouldn't call the class bg-blue? It should be bg-blue-but-purple-on-mobile. But then it's definitely so specific it's the wrong way to select a style. If you want the page background to be blue but purple on mobile, write that in your CSS with a selector of "body" instead of ".bg-blue-but-purple-on-mobile"
The point being you can't do this with inline styles: "bg-purple md:bg-blue"
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#606I recently had a similar junk PR on my 1,700 star repository: https://github.com/gnat/surreal/pull/56 I'm fairly convinced these are bot / LLM generated; the content is nonsensical garbage. PS: If an LLM needs a whole seperate fork to understand your content, the LLM is failing at it's job. PS PS: I want to highlight that the PR itself also seems to be an excuse to get the library quantizor made pulled in as a new de…
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Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#607Something’s wrong when a key piece of foundational web tech is staring down unsustainability. Tailwind is almost ubiquitous these days. It needs to continue to exist. Small businesses being eaten by AI is a net negative, because they’re in a unique position whereby they need to actually have to listen to customers vs just optimizing for a rando middle manger’s promotion in BigTech.
As an engineer, I want to believe this, but really - does it? Most folks use frameworks because it's easier than learning how to build it all yourself - things are done for you instead. This niche is now getting eroded by AI and low-code substantially. Couple that with my experience maintaining frontends that are far too complex for their use cases - e.g. do we really need SPA's, state sync, and reusable components f…
Webdev has overvalued DX to the detriment the user experience for the past 10-15 years. A correction has been long overdue.
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#608Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really a refutation of my point about how building a good component library is hard, to suggest using another component library. Of course, if you use one it's easier, that was my entire point.
shadcn ui is not a component library but the basis for a component library that has great accessibility built-in from the start, so yes, it is a refutation.
You're thinking of Radix primitives which Shadcn is built on, but both are component libraries.
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#609If I were mtsears4 - after such reply I would dig a deep hole, hide there and cry for a week. Dude thought he is smart but ended up being an entitled brat.
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Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#610Something’s wrong when a key piece of foundational web tech is staring down unsustainability. Tailwind is almost ubiquitous these days. It needs to continue to exist. Small businesses being eaten by AI is a net negative, because they’re in a unique position whereby they need to actually have to listen to customers vs just optimizing for a rando middle manger’s promotion in BigTech.
> key piece of foundational web tech is staring down unsustainability This must be satire. CSS is what's actually foundational; literally, a foundation upon which Tailwind was built.
It's a key component for many webdevs even if it isn't literally foundational.