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> 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.

Not a Tailwind user but I really appreciate the honesty. Is the brutal impact of AI as a cause established though? It appears creation of new web sites is down, but that doesn't mean the business has gone to LLMs like suggested; it could as well mean that there are simply no sites being created at all.

Especially as

> Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever.

and

> the docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products

ie. data is lacking.

parent tannhaeuser 10 months ago

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