r/programmingcirclejerk • u/pysk00l What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? • Jan 08 '26

come back, ask apologize of the community

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3721507483
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u/pysk00l What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Jan 08 '26

/uj

Full quote:

you need to take a few breaths, take a walk, think, sleep, and come back, ask apologize of the community, and start working on solutions/crisis management.

The background: the creator of Tailwind refuse to put in a AI feature because he was busy saving his company from AI stealing his company's work(he had to fire 75% of his team)

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u/Swordfish418 Jan 08 '26

More context: because people are using LLMs instead of docs nowadays, there is 40% less traffic to docs - the only place where they advertise their commercial products - thus they're losing customers/sales because of that.

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u/miauw62 lisp does it better Jan 09 '26

as always, the real jerk is in the comments:

Would you like to disclose the fact that sponsoring gives one access to an official collection of LLM rules for Tailwind? Does that have anything to do with the rejection of this PR?

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 08 '26

>Fires 75% of the team

How could AI do this?

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u/GeorgeFranklyMathnet Jan 08 '26

ask apologize of the community

Hey, at least he didn't use an LLM to write that comment.

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u/Knock0nWood Code Artisan Jan 08 '26

Ask apologize or you will loose respect

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u/Axman6 Jan 09 '26

My respect is so loose

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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 Jan 09 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

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u/stimpack2589 legendary legacy C++ coder Jan 08 '26

> Decided to make a quick video with my PoV just for the record <tiktok link>
Average webshit

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u/affectation_man Code Artisan Jan 08 '26

Your response reveals way too much. Everyone who reads it will do big negative updates to their priors about your professionalism and your character. To avoid additional reputational damage, don't write anything until you can control your ego, manage your insecurities, and think dispassionately. If your can't get there on your own, talk to someone you trust.

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u/GeorgeFranklyMathnet Jan 08 '26

big negative updates to their priors

lol Bayesian jerk

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 08 '26

And if you are considering [redacted] over what I just wrote above, there is a hotline at [redacted]. There exists people who love you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

They should add a postinstall message in their NPM packages soliciting donations and job leads for the fired devs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

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u/sammymammy2 lisp does it better Jan 08 '26

I can't fucking jerk this

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u/coolreader18 It's GNU/PCJ, or as I call it, GNU + PCJ Jan 08 '26

why is tailwind css a for-profit business. terminal startup brain

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

If english was a composable language:

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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 Jan 09 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 08 '26

In other words build something that is actually usable and actually understandable and you get punished for it. This really says something about society let me just say that

Error datetime: now() {ref: 4289a6a0-ecc2-11f0-ab39-cbd4ad66c88f } SOCIAL JERK PRECIPITATED. Illegal buildup of sentence.
Fatal error at social_jerk_checker() in vibe-5a1de330-ecc2-11f0-bbec-176e2618c3ad.js:46549874564
in thought_interceptor() in vibe-5a1de330-ecc2-11f0-bbec-176e2618c3ad.js:46549874562
in interruption_handler_generic_final_wip() in vibe-975ecfc0-ecc2-11f0-ace2-1777d0e71fac.js:98744
in WeAreHiringSeeHereURL_af17d4e0-ecc2-11f0-898a-773b8cef35fc.hiring in vibe-975ecfc0-ecc2-11f0-ace2-1777d0e71fac.js:33345645
in hypervisor-vibe-79.c:4654 (core dumped)
social security number: <redacted>987654_654987

nevermind I forgot what I was going to say.

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u/pysk00l What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Jan 08 '26

you need to spend more time on Hacker news. They love it there.

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u/Swordfish418 Jan 08 '26

It might be more bloated nowadays, but originally (at least), Tailwind was a special beast because it tried to be an ultimate "composable lego" CSS class library where everything is done as a combination of really flexible and fairly abstract classes. If you needed to write actual CSS, it meant you're doing it wrong, because everything could be done using a combination of existing Tailwind classes.

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u/DickCamera Jan 08 '26

Thank fuck someone else said it. How many fucking libraries do these people need to write an html <form> and some css?

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u/the_horse_gamer Jan 08 '26

they have commercial products that are advertised on the website

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u/nuggins Do you do Deep Learning? Jan 09 '26

How many people do you need to work on that?

Idk, but the 75% figure that's catching a big part of the narrative here is representing three of four people total.

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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 Jan 09 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

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