First AI came and scooped up your art. Now it's scooped up Adobe

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First AI came and scooped up your art. Now it's scooped up Adobe

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A two-person GitHub project called ArtCraft uses AI-generated code to replicate major Creative Cloud functions, highlighting the fragility of Adobe's software moat.

What: ArtCraft is an ongoing project attempting to build functional alternatives to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, and Premiere using AI assistance. The project proves that tiny teams can now build sophisticated professional software previously requiring massive organizations.

Why it matters: This signals that generative coding tools are commoditizing complex software development, allowing small actors to compete with industry giants by rapidly iterating on core feature sets.

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ArtCraft is a two-person GitHub project that appears to use AI-generated code to recreate large parts of Adobe's Creative Cloud functionality, including alternatives to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, and Premiere. Its rapid development demonstrates how AI coding tools could allow tiny teams to reproduce increasingly sophisticated professional software that previously required huge organizations to build. The development creates an ironic reversal for Adobe, whose own embrace of generative AI has faced criticism from creatives concerned about AI systems reproducing their work.

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