Tailwind Labs recently announced it was laying off roughly 75% of its engineering team after suffering an almost 80% collapse in revenue. On the surface, it sounds like another familiar tech story: a developer tools company crushed by the death of SEO.
I was thinking the same thing. A lot of public source code will now live behind firewalls or walled gardens. If they are shared at all.
This very much reminds of 20 yrs ago when all the media companies demanded $ from Google bc people went to Google News to get the highlights and then did not really need to go to WSJ, NYT etc. When Google said they would remove them from the index, the media sites blinked bc they knew they would lose a ton of traffic from Google
It's pretty lame that this situation is probably going to make a lot of people with good ideas re-think putting out open-source projects out of fear. Maybe optimizing better for LLMs (are we calling it GEO these days?) is the way out of this but who knows.
I was thinking the same thing. A lot of public source code will now live behind firewalls or walled gardens. If they are shared at all.
This very much reminds of 20 yrs ago when all the media companies demanded $ from Google bc people went to Google News to get the highlights and then did not really need to go to WSJ, NYT etc. When Google said they would remove them from the index, the media sites blinked bc they knew they would lose a ton of traffic from Google
It's pretty lame that this situation is probably going to make a lot of people with good ideas re-think putting out open-source projects out of fear. Maybe optimizing better for LLMs (are we calling it GEO these days?) is the way out of this but who knows.