What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe

sneak

The author of this project is pushing and promoting it HARD, on HN and elsewhere. It does not appear to be even remotely at feature parity, but they write about it as if it were finished and working. IMO it is vaporware until shown to be otherwise.

etchalon

"Nothing. They're bad apps, coded by an amateur, offering no new ideas and only the most obvious subset of functionality."

whalesalad

Adobe slept so incredibly hard on tools like Photoshop. They have been keeping that stack on life support for decades without any real innovation (Linux support?) and hostile dark patterns around subscriptions and cancellations. If we could peel the covers back and inspect the source I am sure it is as antiquated as a Pentium 3. They deserve to be supplanted by something else for languishing such a legendary tool. Even if it is vibe coded.

hirako2000

I see plenty of posts from authors who didn't even bother trying any of these clones. It seems it's buzzing because it make people who post about it, buzz. We live a strange time.

liuliu

> Is an open-source vibe-coded creative suite really worth cheering on? No. They suck the oxygen out of the open-source ecosystem for other more credible software, such as Photopea or Gimp or FreeCAD.

getcrunk

Is it just me or is it really hard to get a complete/working product out of an llm? I find that unless I have very detailed specs with rigorous completion verification/criteria (manually atm) or tests. It’s like 60/40 at best. And adding all the tricks only gets me to like 75-80. Tbh I am using cheaper Chinese models (ds4.1f) and only pay for the $20 plans from the us labs

rustystump

I learned photoshop long before programming and the idea someone will vibe up not just photoshop but all the apps is absolute ballocks. It isnt that there is no market for a cheaper version but people forget the amount of craft it takes to get something from 80% to 99%. If all you can add is baby sitting agents, then you will never reach beyond 80%. Yes, spend 10m on tokens and 2 years improving and it may become useful but isnt that how it always was? Ela figma and canva?

maxglute

Honestly, I'd be surprised the Adobe or current workflow even survives in a few years with people who grew up on image prompting and sketch to image etc. But it'd be nice to someone to throw enough tokens to make some parity Adobe software... like OpenAI wasting 10m on 1m math problem poor waste of resources... spend 100m and kill and charge $10 instead of adobe $50.