alt Hacker News> 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.
Adam is simply trying to navigate this new reality, and he's being honest, so there's no need to criticize him.
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Some of the critics in the thread are… odious. I’ve written down some of the GH handles, because if I’m ever hiring again, I wanna make sure I’d never hire some of these folks.
I don’t understand how someone can display such contempt towards the maintainer of a thing they’ve used for free.
If there's anything AI coding is good at, it's writing react components and tailwind css.
Agreed. Also I could not imagine being in his shoes, it must be heartbreaking seeing all his work burn like this.
I think it's fairly sad that somebody feels this needs to be said.
I don't buy it. They failed to build a sustainable business model and are now suffering the consequences. Everybody is leaning into AI because it works (in the sense that it pays the bills). Saying the layoffs were because of AI offloads the blame.
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>and he's being honest
oh, come the fuck on. it's "AI made us do it" drivel that companies began to justify layoffs with in 2023 (!!!).
Tailwind is just another FOTM frontend thing. I saw dozens of them come, gain some popularity, then abruptly disappear once the marketing budget ran out.
He fired a shitload of people, of course we can criticise him
Tools like Tailwind are one of the few cases where I totally believe it when the CEO says "we are cutting jobs because of AI".
Sucks that anytime you ask AI to generate a site for you Tailwind will have an impact on that.