"Software is Over": Someone Vibe-Coded Open-Source Adobe Clones

[LevelUP]

"Software is Over": Someone Vibe-Coded Open-Source Adobe Clones
https://futurism.com/future-society/adob...e-artcraft

Adobe:


Somebody vibe-coded free open-source clones of basically the whole Adobe suite in Rust and dropped them a few days ago.

The guy (Brandon Thomas, @echelon) used Claude Opus agents to build PhotoCraft (Photoshop), VectorCraft (Illustrator), FilmCraft (Premiere), LightCraft (Lightroom), EffectCraft (After Effects), DesignCraft (InDesign), and PrintCraft (Acrobat). Mostly clean-room from public docs and watching the real apps, no decompiling.

He got the first versions out over a weekend. PhotoCraft alone is around 250k lines of Rust already, has real PSD support, a GPU compositor, and runs on Mac/Windows/Linux + browser.

[DegreeNerd]

Closed source is dead.

Everything can be reverse-engineered now!

[LevelUP]

I remember when this AI coding stuff first started to take off in the fall of 2024. I tried Cursor AI, and while it was cool at first, it completely fell apart once a project hit 1,000 to 2,000 lines of code.

Back then, asking the AI for a tiny CSS tweak meant watching it refactor your entire codebase, strip out core dependencies, and completely crash the program. You’d have to prompt it five times just to get a color change right. It would have been ten times faster to just do it manually.

Seeing what AI can do now is mind-blowing. It genuinely feels like going from an Intel 8088 chip to Apple Silicon in just two years.

[SteveFoerster]

AI-supported coding is getting better. So on the one hand, given that the software in this article is described as "pre-alpha" quality, I'll hold off a little longer on Adobe's eulogy. But on the other hand, Adobe and companies like them better have a plan for what's coming.

As an experiment, I tried to get the free Nemotron models to vibecode a browser-based version of the old Star Raiders game for the 8-bit Atari. It was... well, partially successful.

[Maltus]

Oh well if you read the articleyou get that they didn't "reverse engineer" Adobe, they created apps that can do the same for free as the shitty subscription-Adobe-stuff. But it is all still in early developement, so at this time you have to stick with Adobe...

The title of the article is a bit clickbaity...

[bluebooger]

a youtuber (The Cherno) asked claude to create 3D game engine

this is what it came up with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_uf5OfMGio&t=2580s

its pretty impressive

he told it to use this file as a prompt
https://gist.github.com/TheCherno/ccf5d7...9474c7af5d

The Cherno is an experienced C++ programmer and said he will do a code review of the engine once he's had time to look over the whole thing

[LevelUP]

Here's another article that describes the process a bit better. 

According to Ars Technica, developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 and Rust to reverse-engineer Adobe’s core software suite into an open-source clone called ArtCraft.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/everythi...ally-work/

He used a clean room implementation, which is a method used to recreate a competitor's product through reverse engineering without infringing on copyrights.