LLMs have burned Billions but couldn’t build another Tailwind
This week brought a total saga: Tailwind laid off 75% of its workforce.This is particularly striking because Tailwind has been around for a long time and is an extremely popular framework used by thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of websites and developers worldwide. This popularity is probably why LLMs frequently generate code using Tailwind.Yet despite all this, Tailwind seems to be falling on hard times. It’s disingenuous to claim that Tailwind is now useless or deprecated because of LLMs. First, the founder confirmed it’s not. Second, it’s irrelevant. Tailwind’s situation involves a sudden change of course that doesn’t follow the pattern of traditional decline.It’s worth noting that Tailwind is currently used by 1.5% of the web. That might sound like a small market share (and it is),…
