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I think maybe they should have kept building Tailwinds CSS, release new versions, then charge a subscription to teams for their agents to access latest changes
by aurareturn 1mo ago
I think maybe they should have kept building Tailwinds CSS, release new versions, then charge a subscription to teams for their agents to access latest changes in their documents.
In other words, the documents for the latest versions are hidden behind a pay wall.
- lekevicius 1mo agoThat's one way to ensure Tailwind v4 remains forever the only version anyone uses. Agents already are not very responsive to framework changes.
- aurareturn 1mo agoThat's ok. Teams who pay can use the new versions.
- ceejayoz 1mo agoAnd the AIs they use would have no inherent training on those new versions.
- CodingJeebus 1mo agoWhile everyone else migrates to something else because v4 eventually becomes legacy and the only way to get modern features is to use something open and available. Charging for access to new versions only gives you short-term runway at the expense of giving your entire user base a very good reason to leave.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agoIf people can't get paid to pay their rent and eat to write and support code, how is it relevant what the consumers of the code freeriding get? If the AI machine requires ongoing fuel to improve, they can pay for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
- Muromec 1mo agoThey don't get paid to write more of it, but maybe we had enough tailwind and invisible boot of market is giving those people a gentle kick to force them to do something else.
- simonw 1mo agoIf you release new versions without documentation it's easy for agents to generate that missing documentation.
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