adamwathan commented on Jan 7, 2026
I totally see the value in the feature and I would like to find a way to add it.
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. And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I’m not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month.
Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever. The docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products, and without customers we can’t afford to maintain the framework. I really want to figure out a way to offer LLM-optimized docs that don’t make that situation even worse (again we literally had to lay off 75% of the team yesterday), but I can’t prioritize it right now unfortunately, and I’m nervous to offer them without solving that problem first.
@PaulRBerg I don’t see the AGENTS.md stuff we offer as part of the sponsorship program as anything similar to this at all — that’s just a short markdown file with a bunch of my own personal opinions and what I consider best practices to nudge LLMs into writing their Tailwind stuff in a specific way. It’s not the docs at all, and I resent the accusation that I am not disclosing my “true intentions” here or something.
This feature is so that people can build MORE things with Tailwind in a FASTER and more EFFICIENT capacity.
@mtsears4 Tailwind is growing faster than it ever has and is bigger than it ever has been, and our revenue is down close to 80%. Right now there’s just no correlation between making Tailwind easier to use and making development of the framework more sustainable. I need to fix that before making Tailwind easier to use benefits anyone, because if I can’t fix that this project is going to become unmaintained abandonware when there is no one left employed to work on it. I appreciate the sentiment and agree in spirit, it’s just more complicated than that in reality right now.
My Notes / Thoughts:
Software engineering and the broader white-collar sector are facing a profound collapse of the “implementation layer”—tasks requiring mid-to-high level cognitive intelligence that are now being automated by AI. This shift necessitates two immediate actions: the development of new business models, as legacy structures are no longer viable, and a fundamental reskilling of the workforce to adapt to this new reality.