Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
The author criticizes the rise of 'vibe coded' AI clones of professional software like Adobe Photoshop, labeling the practice as unethical and spammy. Despite significant investment in API tokens, these clones currently fail to match the performance and brush engine quality of the original software.
Why it matters
This highlights the tension between rapid AI-driven development and the quality/ethical standards of established software industries.
Over the last several months I have been tracking AI guys trying to create vibe coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe’s apps which have always been the most pirated apps since the 90s.
There are now about a dozen vibe coded attempts to clone Photoshop and some other Adobe apps, not including dozens of forks of them. People like this aren't just openly copying Adobe's apps. It's Microsoft, Avid, Autodesk and whoever else is in their sights next including game devs big and small.
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