Comment by MattDaEskimo
16 days ago
Tailwind itself is not useless, but the plus package is.
It's a simple convenience utility belt that LLMs can already automate.
Both open-source and open-core need to be re-evaluated as labor value plummets.
I also disagree with the "why". Tailwind is extremely useful with LLMs as it can set styling inside of HTML, rather than maintain an external, typically massive, convoluted CSS file.
It's for the same reason that typing in programming will become a standard with LLMs: eliminate implicit/semantic density with explicit/semantic precision.
In both examples an LLM can have a strong understanding of a single file/module without needing to search for its meaning externally
Our concept of "Tailwind itself" should encompass, really, the economic foundations in which it's ensconced and from which it grew, even if it grew "on spec."
Ie, without the promise of some path to profitability, eg the plus package, the mere library cannot justify itself. So are we to stop building FOSS on spec?