Vibe coding is thriving. The tools powering it are quietly dying.

Last month, Tailwind CSS fired 75% of their engineering team.

Revenue dropped 80%. Doc traffic down 40%.

Meanwhile, Tailwind is more popular than ever.

Used by Shopify, GitHub, NASA, and millions of developers daily.

So what happened?

AI coding tools now generate Tailwind code directly.

Developers get what they need without ever visiting the docs.

They never discover the paid products. They never support the project financially.

The framework is thriving. The business behind it is dying.

A new research paper "Vibe Coding Kills Open Source" puts a name to the pattern most of us haven't noticed:

👉 AI trains on open-source code

👉 AI generates that code for you

👉 You never visit the project's docs

👉 Maintainers lose traffic, revenue, and community

👉 Projects become unsustainable

👉 The very code AI depends on starts disappearing

The numbers back it up. Stack Overflow questions dropped 25% after ChatGPT launched.

92% of US developers now use AI coding tools daily. 41% of all global code is AI-generated.

I use Claude Code, Bolt, Lovable, and Replit every day.

I'm not anti-vibe coding.

It's genuinely changed how I build.

But there's a question I can't shake..

If the open-source tools behind your AI disappeared tomorrow, what happens to your product?

We're all building on a foundation that's being quietly hollowed out and most of us don't even realize it.

What open-source project do you think is most at risk next?