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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by jsheard on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:22PM (#46530291)
> The paid products Adam mentions are the pre-made components and templates, right? It seems like the bigger issue isn't reduced traffic but just that AI largely eliminates the need for such things.

Or more cynically that it eliminates the need to pay for such things. Claude and friends were no doubt trained on the commercial Tailwind components, so the question becomes whether those models could have done the job of Tailwind UI without piggybacking on the unpaid labour of the Tailwind UI developers. If not then we clearly have a sustainability problem here - someone still has to do the hard work to push things forward, but with the knowledge that any attempt to profit from that work will be instantly undercut by the copyright laundering Borg.

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by port11 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:11PM (#46532878)
Hopefully someone will propose an economic mode where AI Landlords profit off everyone else’s work, but don’t have to pay back for any of it. Specifically, how everyone else will be making a living, because UBI isn’t coming anytime soon.