a project is losing popularity, ai didn’t eat it
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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yes, that is the link linked here, that i’m commenting on… seems off to respond to my response with the same link i’m already commenting on….
but here i’ll quote it:
Update 2: While Adam did not specifically say the traffic drop is from Google Search, I have to assume that to be the case. What other source of traffic can have such a devastating impact on a company? AI Overviews have shown, despite what Google has said, to hurt traffic to many publishers
it’s just people blaming their failure on ai overview… which is fucking stupid
every programmer worth their salt knows ai overview is inaccurate and incomplete
It "killed" the closed source commercial offering that relied on tailwind being annoying to use without it.
Which means they had to lay off 3 of of their 4 member engineering team
So you had a four-person team working on something that couldn’t sustain itself.
Adam Wathan wrote, "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." "Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever," he added. He then goes on to explain that "The docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products, and without customers we can't afford to maintain the framework."
So your only source of customers was some docs somewhere?! wtf are you talking about AI caused the problem. You had no customers.