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Also, if your customer doesn\u2019t care for fancy UI, then more even the case to let the AI design it for you and pick something like DaisyUI or shadcn and their MCPs with Ta", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 747064784, "item_id": 46691549, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691549", "by": "virtujoel", "date": "2026-01-20", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "This library doesn't appear to be accessible.", "excerpt": "This library doesn't appear to be accessible. Just looking at two random components: The Drawer (https://daisyui.com/components/drawer/) doesn't trap focus inside itself (letting you tab to the page behind the drawer while it's open). 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