Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings
12 hours ago by themachinestops to c/technology
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76827125
I really don't think any of this is intentional, though. It's just the contradictions being heightened.
it was guaranteed to happen. didn’t need to be masterminded, but the target points to forethought.
Yeah this would be great if it went that way but really the other option more likely to happen is they settle and the guy goes away quietly and nothing comes of it as their SLAP lawsuit works like a charm.
What safety warnings?
It's vibe coded, who knows what else it's doing?
The same applies to the genuine article too though.
The same applies to the genuine article too though.
And that's the problem. At least if the vibe-coded thing is open-source you can look at the code (or in all likelihood just have another LLM skimp over the code it to check for intentional malware if it's too much slop but that's still much better than nothing)
Oh, totes agree!
Adobe VS AI slop, who would win ?
Piracy claims, that's funny
It's still an early work in progress but it has very high velocity with PRs and issue activity:
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/pulse
Something to keep an eye on and see how they progress against their roadmap:
I have the whole suite of apps installed as a Flatpak. The Photoshop clone is the fastest one to implement features, but the whole suite is moving really fast. Looking at the commits and features shipped, I haven't seen anything like this. It looks very well organized.
I have been using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign professionally for ~30 years. These Craft apps are freaking amazing, they open in the blink of an eye and open multi-gb files just as fast. Working with these big files is also instantaneous.
I have done my own calculations, and what they say is true, the Suite will reach beta status by mid-late October depending on the app. But the suite in general will be ready with more features than what a basic-intermediate user would want.
I think what will make or break the Suite is if they go with local AI or not for Neural filters and generative fill. The community might turn on them if they don't.
But technically speaking It's truly an amazing feat.
These are my own projections, so it's not official:
| Repo | Ready today | Hours to beta | Beta (central) | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vectorcraft | 62% | 170–270 | Oct 13 | Oct 12–15 |
| lightcraft | 61% | 340–600 | Oct 15 | Oct 13–19 |
| photocraft | 45% | 1,100–1,800 | Oct 22 | Oct 17–31 |
| effectcraft | 45% | 350–620 | Oct 22 | Oct 17 – Nov 1 |
| filmcraft | 56% | 400–700 | Oct 22 | Oct 17 – Nov 1 |
| printcraft | 49% | 400–700 | Oct 22 | Oct 16–31 |
| designcraft | 47% | 435–775 | Nov 26 | Nov 3 – Jan 4 |
Does it matter? If it works we can laugh at Adobe, if it doesn't we can laugh at "AI", and however it goes we can probably laugh at Adobe vs "AI".
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Y'all are missing the bigger picture here. This brings up the question of ai and intellectual property and throws the ball into adobe's court to set their army of lawyers on figuiring out a no-win solution for themselves.
Edit: Sorry I should've used Super Intelligence, I don't want to be the enemy. /s
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