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Niall Winters (also: @[email protected])
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Towards a socially-just creative technology culture. #convivialtech
I’ve a friend working at a Big Tech company and after three years of heavy use, he estimates perhaps a 15% max increase in productivity BUT he feels it’s maxed out now. Said his mangers still believe the hype that more is possible even without evidence.
January 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
True. Certainly formulaic websites have been pretty much phased out by LLMs. It’ll be interesting to see what impact agents will have on hotel booking sites as they improve.
January 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Good points and I’m sure many programmers agree with you. One of my questions is how do (large) software companies support this way of working or are LLMs simply viewed as a means to produce more (of “less” quality)?
January 12, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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Using tailwind as an example of „slow coding“ is quite a stretch.
Disclaimer: I wouldn’t shed a single tear if tailwind finally died.

But I think that the situation points to an older problem but similar problem.

gehrmann-design.de/blog/2026-01...
Tailwind's Model in an AI age
The recent turmoil around Tailwind CSS is not really about Tailwind. Not even about AI. It is a visible symptom of an old, unresolved question: how do we make the open web sustainable
gehrmann-design.de
January 12, 2026 at 11:28 AM
TW had found a model that allowed open source to work for them up until now. TW being “too big to fail” as you said opens up a whole other area of powerful companies relationships to sustainable open source projects - a long standing problem which I think AI is making worse. (2/2)
January 12, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Hi Michael, Great post and I agree with what you said. My idea of slow is engagement with any “educational” resources outside of the LLM window. Tailwind was used as an example of less engagement with those resources. (1/2)
January 12, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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This reminds me of a great book folks interested in the evolution of tech in prisons should check out
Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology
Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology
bookshop.org
January 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Linking in @molly.wiki who also moved from SS to Ghost maybe a few months earlier. I’m sure she’ll have an insightful take.
January 10, 2026 at 6:53 PM
… have come in to help fund TW. I also saw Adam had a podcast on the background to all this, so I’ll listen to that later and then follow up in more detail 👍. adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-... (2/2)
Adam's Morning Walk | We had six months left
I just had to lay off some of the most talented people I've ever worked with and it fucking sucks.
adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Thanks for this. Some good points here re broader impact of genAI on content dev (videos, docs etc.). I’m not really on X but saw that a number of big sponsors … (1/2)
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM