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The most popular CSS framework just fired 75% of their engineering team.
Not because they're failing. Because AI learned their tool too well.
Tailwind's downloads went 5x this year. Revenue down 80%. Docs traffic down 40%. The founder admitted they're 6 months from not making payroll.
The lesson for anyone building developer tools or open source:
- Free + docs funnel is dead when AI bypasses docs entirely
- Compounding revenue (subscriptions) beats album drops (one-time purchases)
- Your success metrics might be hiding a business model collapse
This is the first domino. Prettier, Excalidraw, and others are seeing the same pattern.
If you're building anything that depends on open source, now is the time to figure out how to support the tools you rely on.
What open source project would hurt your workflow most if it disappeared?
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