@VectorStyler: It is always best to take the high road. Agreed. And this is not a call to sail the high seas. At all. If it came across like that, my apologies.
I am deep in the weeds of conversations with techies who are shitting bricks about their world collapsing around them because of the monster they unleashed. But the toothpaste is already out of the tube. And I just wanted to taste it and see it.
A less principled person is almost certainly doing this, is my point. And it tells me how that whole ArtCraft apps came into the market so quickly. They were throwing out apps like beads in a Brazilian Carnaval.
Decades of engineering across image processing, vector graphics, non-linear video editing, desktop publishing, CAD, and spreadsheet calculation engines within a single month
How's that possible? Not even AI can do it on its own. And the guy basically bragged that he one-shotted PS on Claude. Now you know how!
He's almost certain to get sued because from what I hear Adobe lawyers are looking extremely closely at the code. But lets say they manage to shut him down. It solves nothing. They're going to face this problem forever until something fundamentally changes in how AI is used. And that would be a blow to Adobe's own profit margins. So they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.
But this raises an extremely important question for Indie devs like you. It is going to be a slaughterhouse going forward. Human beings cannot keep up with this pace.
My post is to call your attention to this phenomenon. I am certain you're already aware of it, too. But just the fact that a man who has entirely forgotten how to program can sit and down and unravel a 30-year old piece of thoroughly obfuscated binary code in just 2 hours is... what's the word... dystopian? Promethean?
I just invite your thoughts.
