Tailwind lays off 75% of 4-person engineering team, citing brutal impact of AI

Is it even worth mentioning that the whole "AI is the reason for layoffs" line is a charade, or does everyone here know that already?

For anyone who doesn't: the economy is bad in general, but saying citing "AI" as the reason for layoffs lets companies reverse their public perception from "company going through a crunch" to "forward-thinking innovator".

The latest "Pivot to AI" pulls together a lot of mainstream financial reporting on this very thing: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-b...

January 8th;

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950

Could it be that Tailwind is just "done"? If they churn it the way that other web frameworks churn, like react-router, they would be subtracting more value than they add.