The background is a little nerdy, so bear with me. Tailwind CSS is a widely popular framework to design web pages – and a darling of AI code generators (there are specific reasons for that, outside of sheer popularity, but that doesn’t matter here). Chances are, if you ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any other AI to create a website for you, it will use Tailwind CSS to style the page. A few days ago, the founder of Tailwind posted that his company had to fire 75% of its staff due to an 80% drop in revenue – caused by AI.
The company behind Tailwind makes money when people using their framework come to their website for help and documentation and then subscribe to their paid plans and services. Only, if you ask AI to build your website, you never go to Tailwind’s website…
AI will scrape your project site, users will never visit it for documentation and will never know about your commercial product.
Maybe one of the most direct idiosyncrasies of our AI-driven glorious new world. Dog eats dog.
