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
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76827125
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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
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.
Settle what? What's the outcome of the settlement. Even that sets a precedent.
The Kind of we will drop our suit if you give us your code etc.
Thank you for the reimplementations of Adobe and Office, have not laughed this much in a long time.
Adobe VS AI slop, who would win ?
Can I bet on neither of them?
Adobe is all in on AI investment either way they win.
What safety warnings?
It's vibe coded, who knows what else it's doing?
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)
'That transmission, Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an SOS, it looks like a warning'.
Oh, totes agree!
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:
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/blob/main/ROADMAP.md
does it actually work though? Anyone tried it?
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:
My money's on Microsoft taking down the repo before that.
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".
The fact that everyone despises Adobe lately (last few years?) for their extremely anti consumer practices makes this case so much more difficult to judge.
On one hand, it is a blatant steal of an intellectual property. Not the code, but the UI, the philosophy behind the programs, with zero creativity added. On the other hand, fuck Adobe.