CEO Adam Wathan said that Tailwind’s CSS framework is now seeing around 75 million downloads a month, largely because AI tools generate Tailwind code automatically.

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Tailwinds Labs CEO Adam Wathan recently posted that revenue was down 80% despite 75 million monthly downloads.

If AI continues to trample the creators of new code and frameworks, then where will our new code and frameworks come from?

Tailwind Labs laid off engineers after citing the “brutal impact” of AI, exposing how AI coding tools are disrupting open-source business models.

It can be tricky to estimate the impact of AI on a company — even when a company seems to be benefiting from greater use of AI, things could be very different on the inside.