Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team (github.com)
from Sheldan@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 08 Jan 2026 00:45
https://programming.dev/post/43667396

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Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus on 08 Jan 2026 00:51 next collapse

our revenue is down close to 80%

oof. that’s not something very many groups come back from. losing that much of their business and team, the project is on life support.

pivot_root@lemmy.world on 08 Jan 2026 01:55 next collapse

There’s a whole lot of entitlement going on in that thread.

If the maintainers didn’t want to merge it because they had bigger issues to worry about, that’s that. Whining about it and trying to pressure them with prospects of “becoming obsolete [if you don’t merge this]” isn’t going to make a convincing argument.

They should either shut the fuck up and learn to RTFM, or maybe consider putting their money where their mouths are by actually paying to support the projects they seem to so desperately think they have a right to influence the direction of.

TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca on 08 Jan 2026 02:29 collapse

Very much so. I bet most of those people have never run an open source project or business, but they all have an opinion.

Pretty sad to hear this though since I really like Tailwind. I wonder how many other projects this vibe coding bullshit will harm. So sad to see more wealth being concentrated instead of being distributed.

warm@kbin.earth on 08 Jan 2026 02:25 next collapse

The fucking ai degenerates in there ahaha, fuck off the lot of you.

Avicenna@programming.dev on 08 Jan 2026 08:04 next collapse

hmm laying of %75 of the team unfortunately sounds like tying up any remaining businesses before closing down

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 08 Jan 2026 11:42 collapse

I hope so. It made a lot of websites hard to modify via usercss.

Kissaki@programming.dev on 08 Jan 2026 09:00 next collapse

A comment late in the thread says none of the LLMs even use the PR-suggested llms.txt.

thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world on 08 Jan 2026 12:52 next collapse

I’m not even sure. From a LLM standpoint that’s even a good idea. From all my research on getting good output context matters. So if you throw too much junk in the middle it’ll get evens stupider then it already is

curious_dolphin@slrpnk.net on 08 Jan 2026 13:25 next collapse

I feel dumber after reading that thread.

realitista@lemmus.org on 08 Jan 2026 14:11 collapse

At first I thought it was the creators of Thailand.