Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind CSS posted that he had to let go of 75% of his engineering team because of AI. He said traffic to the Tailwind help documentation is down 40% and that is where most people learn about his solution and then buy commercial products. He added his revenue is down 80%.
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
a project is losing popularity, ai didn’t eat it
see https://programming.dev/post/43956110/21568407
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:
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