Clean room implementation of Adobe products

popalchemist

how was this achieved? Is this group super well funded? Is this just Claude churning for 3 months?

ChrisArchitect

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981449

ianpurton

If this is even 50% functional its going to have an impact on adobe revenue. Would be amazing to this these tools in Linux distros.

shubhamjain

The stark contrast between HN comments and everywhere else makes me think HN may be one of the last places left for grounded technical discussion. Everyone on Twitter is acting as if Adobe’s software was decompiled, rewritten, and that’s it—game over, without even trying the damn thing. Seeing software engineers themselves espouse this nonsense is particularly annoying. Yes, AI can recreate photoshop. But Photoshop is the product of thousands of tiny design, engineering, and product decisions. The idea that all of those decisions can simply be “decoded” from compiled binaries is laughable.

sowhat1

Even if this isn't perfect, with each frontier coding model release we get closer and closer to small teams one-shotting complex software like this. I'm certainly not going to hold Adobe stock long-term.

haunter

Oh it's even hallucinating a non-existing FreeBSD version. Perfect slop. >Installers for macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and the web are attached to each GitHub release >On FreeBSD 14 (x86_64), the release has a tarball >photocraft-<version>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz

rfgplk

Is there any interest in a C++ rewrite of Adobe products? A pure Rust implementation essentially holds back portability and control massively, while C++ allows you to control and account for every single bit of memory.

HeavyStorm

"clean room" with AI is impossible

agos

Are we doing a daily thread now?