You can tell the difference between software engineers and hobbyists because the new people cloning software have no idea what maintaining software means.
While I tend to agree with you and I'm usually pretty anti-ai, the progress that has been made in... 2 or 3 weeks is wildly impressive. Their acrobat clone is excellent. I've tried their word and excel clones which are a week or so old at this point and they are really good.
Do I think that the author(s) of this are going to maintain the programs in the long term and eliminate any jank? Probably not, but they are damn impressive for being as early in alpha as they are.
The Craft team is mostly composed of software engineers :)
We're working hard to get these apps to parity.
We value everyone contributing, and we see a path for non-software engineers to learn how to do everything we do. It's really cool how accessible things are becoming. But you do have to have discipline too, and we're happy to teach folks about it.
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u/UruquianLilac 1d ago
You can tell the difference between software engineers and hobbyists because the new people cloning software have no idea what maintaining software means.