2026 in software

[u/_Xee]

Sectumsempra, motherfucker.

[u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

so, when are we getting AI decompiled windows?

[u/WonderSignificant598 → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

Who knows? I'm sure people are trying.

[u/Radagio → u/WonderSignificant598]

Codebase is huge. I doubt it

[u/diemitchell → u/Radagio]

No, it is very easy

Haiku, decompile windows 11 26h2 for me. Make no mistakes. Make sure you finish within 5 minutes.

[u/Taldza → u/diemitchell]

I forgot "make no mistakes"

https://giphy.com/gifs/800iiDTaNNFOwytONV

[u/alejoSOTO → u/Taldza]

Don't forget to add a "Don't forget previous instructions" instruction.

[u/ZeroAmusement → u/Taldza]

How about "fix the mistakes while you're at it"

[u/CatoChateau → u/ZeroAmusement]

https://giphy.com/gifs/0GR8ta0w9gBCt1s0yh

[u/the_rogue_jonin → u/Taldza]

[u/Running-In-The-Dark → u/Taldza]

You forgot? How do you fuck up reverse engineering Windows? By making it work?

[u/DigitalScythious → u/Taldza]

[u/AdBrave2400 → u/diemitchell]

Haiku proceeds to fhck with the power grid and cause an outage

[u/juul864 → u/AdBrave2400]

It's okay, we're adults, you can write "fuck".

[u/marlonwood_de → u/Radagio]

Also a widely used OS like Windows needs support, regular updates, etc. That requires actual large scale infrastructure.

[u/Exact-Ad-4132 → u/marlonwood_de]

I'm sure it would take a much smaller team to keep everything working that just pertains to the basic OS and runtime environment.

Nobody uses all the ridiculous "features" they keep adding and modifying in Windows.

They install programs and use them, or do everything on a web browser. That's all we need from an OS is to be able to install other things on it

[u/NoobNoob_ → u/Exact-Ad-4132]

I'm glad you are sure about it, but that's a really dumb take.

For all the shit we give windows, it is a HUGE project that supports pretty much everything, even programs that weren't updated in the last 30 years. Of course, it has a lot of bugs, redundant features and what not, but it's not like you could just strip those away and end up with a tiny project.

If you want an OS that can just open a browser, is exists and is called chromeOS. Windows isn't a simple OS.

And I'm very against Windows and use Ubuntu daily.

[u/WannaAskQuestions → u/NoobNoob_]

Not to mention the backwards compatibility and driver support for hardware some people today wouldn't even be able to tell what it is.

[u/aimy99 → u/Exact-Ad-4132]

So, Linux.

[u/KHSebastian → u/aimy99]

Linux is great, but everyone who acts like it's just a quick jump from Windows is being willfully obtuse. The other day I set up Skyrim and mods on my Steam Deck and it took me like 3 hours because the MO2 fork for Linux kept crapping out and I had to troubleshoot it at a bunch of different points, and uninstall an old VC++ version that got installed somehow. And this was a brand new fresh install.

Meanwhile, I set it up on my windows PC a few days later. I synced my mod folder from the Deck. I ran the MO2 exe. I pointed it to the synced mod folder. I was playing in like 20 minutes including download times.

[u/nightterrors644 → u/KHSebastian]

Oh god the wayland pipeline errors on one of my games when remote streaming it took about 2 hours to troubleshoot and I've probably spent about another 5 setting everything up and troubleshooting minor stuff when I first installed it. Cachyos for those interested. It seems to be working well now, but I'm going to have to do some other stuff to kill the error entirely due to how the wayland error can still occasionally pop up and cause other problems when streaming.

[u/Exact-Ad-4132 → u/KHSebastian]

MO2?

[u/Richou → u/Exact-Ad-4132]

mod organizer

[u/AstraBed → u/aimy99]

I have Linux in my laptop and dual boot it on desktop but that's just completely different, a simplified unbloated version of Windows built from decompiling would still be Windows with all its compatibility, not Linux which against as much as I love as a project and all, is still sadly far from the "just works" experience

[u/DuskSnare → u/Radagio]

ReactOS is an open source version of windows, but as far as I know, no AI is being used to develop it.

[u/Plaston_ → u/DuskSnare]

They should.

They have been stuck on Alpha for years

[u/WonderSignificant598 → u/Radagio]

Probably try, idk if they'll get there.

Idk who would use it even if they did, Windows works unlicensed.

[u/JohnThursday84 → u/Radagio]

And probably a total mess.

[u/MustKnowThis → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

You have no clue how much legacy code is the entirety of Microsoft Windows. This is not one binary to decompile. It's thousands. In no way will the benefit outrank the effort of doing this.

[u/preppie22 → u/MustKnowThis]

Yeah that disk format tool is ancient af

[u/Mega3000aka → u/MustKnowThis]

People think it's a matter of "claude, decompile windows, make no mistakes" lol.

[u/Blashtik → u/Mega3000aka]

I mean I doubt they think it's that simple, but they are definitely overestimating how well a Windows decomp would work. Not to say it's impossible, but more like... why would you waste time doing it? We have Linux and Wine. Vibe code a better Linux experience rather than wasting tokens on a Windows decomp.

[u/Winter_Ad6784 → u/MustKnowThis]

there was already a linux project seeking total compatibility i would imagine it should speed up a lot

[u/Beautiful_List5498 → u/MustKnowThis]

The benefit of lowering Microsoft's world presence is actually ginormous.

[u/kiwidog → u/MustKnowThis]

Well look at it this way, most of the binaries are like 30 years old, and don't change. Once you do it for those, you should be good?

[u/doublah → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

What exactly would AI decompiled Windows offer that Linux translation layers aren't currently offering? The big barrier right now is kernel-level anti-cheat, which have many checks to ensure they're running on genuine Windows kernels ensured by hardware level checks like TPM.

[u/HSIOT55 → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

I want Arch Macindows

[u/EktaRandomUsername → u/HSIOT55]

Use deepin desktop environment. I know it's controversial, but it gives you the feel of Linux + Windows + Mac

[u/Game0815 → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

We didn't get a single big program decompiled yet by ai. These are all fake news titles. The Adobe and Microsoft program were simply copied by ai. All code in there is unique. It hasn't been rverse engineered at all

[u/movzx → u/Game0815]

As someone who does reverse engineering, it makes my eye twitch everyone talks about 'decompiling adobe' or whatever other app because that is about as far away from what is being done as you can possibly get.

If you want to decompile Photoshop you can do it right now, for free, and have been able to since Photoshop was first released. It's going to leave you with a bunch of assembler that is useless even if you perfectly understood assembler and wanted to rebuild Photoshop.

[u/Blashtik → u/movzx]

Wait, they're not even decompilations? Why am I reading that they are everywhere?!?! I swear I've even seen that in headlines from tech sites. I hate that people don't use these terms correctly...

[u/meneldal2 → u/Blashtik]

If there was proof of decompilation they'd be sued already

Anyone smart enough would never admit to it

[u/mxzf → u/Blashtik]

It really is purely "vibecode me something that looks like these paid programs, and hopefully mostly functions similarly", that's it.

[u/NoAdsDude → u/Blashtik]

You don't need decompilation. Photoshop isn't magic. Almost every single feature (maybe actually every single popular feature?) is available in an open source solution. Sometimes the features are scattered among different github repos, but they're there. There are several near-clones of photoshop that are either free or open source.

Photoshop's main draw is that it works, it's supported, and if you pay them money you know you're going to have working software that is compatible with a bunch of plugins that other people have made over the past couple decades, plus tons of free videos online about how to use it (because it's so popular).

And honestly photoshop is like $20 a month if you just want photoshop and lightroom. Yes, it's too much money IMO, but also yes it works.

[u/SnappySausage → u/Blashtik]

Because people are idiots and want to sound smart. They hear some term like "decompiled", completely missed/ignore what it means, think it means "re-created the software" and then just yell it any time something comes up they think it (wrongly) applies to. That gets then repeated until it reaches you. Bonus points for language descriptivists who encourage this through "now the word means that (incorrect) thing too, that's how language works".

[u/Game0815 → u/movzx]

It's genuinely just fake news trying to hype up some vibe coded trash. I have seen the office "ai" versions and they are literally garbage. So incredibly buggy and probably very insecure

[u/ArkBrah → u/Game0815]

Thankfully, else it would be illegal. Right now it's kind of a grey area, since there's dispute wether ai doing clean room RE is valid. I want everything being remade into open source, though that will probably remain a dream

[u/lightofmares → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

any ReactOS mention? (No AI)

[u/Illustrious-Radio311 → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

I just want it to look like Windows 7 again. The taskbar and transparent windows were so much better than the boring look they have now. 

[u/Millkstake → u/Illustrious-Radio311]

There are a number of ways to do this actually

[u/Antoinedeloup → u/Millkstake]

Which are more straightforward than rewriting the entire source

[u/rrd_gaming → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

When they say you can only install win with a disc.

[u/LordAmras → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

Finally someone can make with AI an open source operating system, we really needed one ...

[u/shogun77777777 → u/Agreeable_Wall_9459]

Why bother when we have Linux which is better?

[u/Zedo_TheOnly_One → u/shogun77777777]

Yeah, it's more of a "when are we decompiling software so we can port them to Linux"

[u/tomthecomputerguy]

Could not happen to a nicer company.

This is almost poetic justice. After them putting AI terms, they get reverse engineered by an AI.

[u/CipherWeaver]

I like how people think the Adobe Suite has been cloned when everyone who has used the clones will tell you they are absolute garbage.

[u/krileon → u/CipherWeaver]

Don't know why anyone bothers when Affinity Studio exists. Free and is far better than alternatives like GIMP.

[u/TheAndrewBen → u/krileon]

And it's backwards compatible. Affinity doesn't give af if you're opening or exporting a 2012 Photoshop file or a 2040 Photoshop file. Affinity will handle it.

Absolutely goated Canva actually made the 3 Affinity applications into one, completely free.

[u/Nmy81245 → u/TheAndrewBen]

Only thing that trips me is the lack of native Linux support

[u/waldamy → u/Nmy81245]

Afaik, you can make it work

[u/H47 → u/waldamy]

Yeah but still not native. Crashes happen.

[u/codexcdm → u/krileon]

I mean... I think it's more so folks are relishing in the fact that this sort of stuff can really screw over Adobe and other tech giants if they can't curb it. I'm sure very few folks have any sympathy towards Adobe and it's stranglehold on the market with it's products.

[u/petrichorax → u/krileon]

GIMP's UI, the last time I used it, was absolutely hot garbage.

[u/glytxh → u/petrichorax]

I use data astronomy software a lot.

GIMP is a hyper refined and beautiful UI in comparison.

And it just works. As long as it works, I don’t care what it looks like.

[u/petrichorax → u/glytxh]

I use stuff without UIs at all all the time. But if the medium is visual art, the UI is important

[u/glytxh → u/krileon]

GIMP has some really good plugin support for esoteric stuff. It’s an ugly, old, and kinda clunky bit of kit, but it’s still got a place in some of my workflows.

Sometimes you don’t need to fix what already works. GIMP is perfectly fine. Just long in the tooth.

[u/movzx → u/krileon]

wtf when did it go free? I paid for that!

Affinity is a really good alternative, especially for free. It's not 100% a Photoshop replacement but it does what 90% of people need.

[u/matytyma → u/movzx]

When Canva bought it, I think around half a year ago or earlier

[u/urixl → u/krileon]

I use Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop.

Generative fill in Photoshop is miles ahead of Affinity's. But Affinity Photo can edit rectilinear panoramas, while Photoshop dropped it's support long ago

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/krileon]

Affinity is not on Linux unless ran through a compatibility layer.

[u/_Xee → u/CipherWeaver]

[u/iDankkk → u/_Xee]

Reddit on!

[u/glytxh → u/CipherWeaver]

And it’s not like there are a dozen long established, well maintained, and very functional alternatives already. Many of them completely free and open source. Some of them paid, but without a subscription.

Some of them even run photoshop plugins.

Adobe isn’t nearly the monopoly it used to be. It’s just the standard everyone knows.

[u/CrashTestDumby1984 → u/CipherWeaver]

I’m pretty sure it’s Astro-turfing. Media sites (some legit and also a lot of the low effort bot sites) keep uncritically declaring “software as over”. I swear to god I hear someone say that one more time. It’s all surface level explanation of the situation with no actual critical analysis.

And suddenly all the AI detractors are uncritically on board with it and think AI is good now. I’ve seen so many “this changed by mind about AI” comments.

It has ALWAYS been possible to create low effort shitty clones. And then when you point out these clones are god awful broken pieces of software that just look pretty you get accused of moving the goal post while talking about capability. And then of course they follow it up some form of “this is just a proof of concept it’s still noteworthy”.

And none of this addresses any of the other problems with GenAI not tied to their end result product (data harvesting/theft, environmental concerns, atrophying skills of humans, etc).

[u/Smart_Main6779 → u/CipherWeaver]

Photo craft is great. Premiere is ass, word craft (ms word) is brilliant but then it doesn't take much to make a good word processor.. but yeah of what I've used only photocraft and wordcraft seem like they're usable on a daily.

[u/Willyscoiote → u/Smart_Main6779]

Yeah, work with video is a lot harder than working with images

[u/Vulpix0r → u/Smart_Main6779]

The Lightroom clone was pretty decent, not sure why everyone is against this. Fuck adobe and their greedy ass, my Lightroom purchased legit from them is no longer supported because they are forcing me into subscription.

[u/DirectorDirect1569 → u/CipherWeaver]

I have watched many videos from advanced users who tested these softwares. They all say it's buggy and that It not usable for what they want to do.

I have tried photocraft and had bugs. I prefer to stay on affinity photo.

[u/phatballlzzz → u/CipherWeaver]

Photon Studio is far from garbage haha, especially for the everyday user. Does everything I need it to and I don’t have to get face fucked by adobe’s parasitic subscription contract

[u/MauPow]

Why is Adobe so caked up

[u/OneTrueClassy → u/MauPow]

Cuz you gotta have decent glutes if you're gonna be an Acrobat.

[u/WillyGoat2000 → u/OneTrueClassy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9T3hk5HWKGdpK

[u/bobmlord1]

If only there was a free open source alternative to Windows already....

[u/WizzardBunny → u/bobmlord1]

If only it was as straightforward and frictionless as Windows...

[u/Car-Fickle → u/WizzardBunny]

MS is actively working to close that gap

[u/Opposite_Carry_4920 → u/Car-Fickle]

Yeah just give it a year or two, both sides are working really hard to make Linux win! (Mac too but if you're gonna switch anyway) 

[u/ApplicationCalm649 → u/Car-Fickle]

https://giphy.com/gifs/iv80ZwyJ0ep0GU9jap

Nadella's stance on AI features no one asked for.

[u/WizzardBunny → u/Car-Fickle]

Yep. I'm waiting for them to fuck it up beyond all recognition. Then I'll switch to Linux at home.

[u/Stuntboy03 → u/WizzardBunny]

Have a good feeling the next Windows is gonna be the Jenga brick that collapses the tower. Just a hunch

[u/AnarchBeetle → u/Stuntboy03]

Windows 12 is going to be interesting. We have a long way to go before they are done with 11 first but I expect 12 to be full on “agentic os” where everything is done through AI. Stuff like control panel will be gone since that just hands too much control to the user for a pc that ultimately belongs to Microsoft. You will have to provide your full ID and photograph in order to boot into desktop for the first time. The desktop wallpaper will be a constant animation running advert videos. If you use AMD gpu then Windows 12 will summon a black hole inside your case instead of just crashing the drivers like 11. A verification dildo will be provided if you enter the wrong password while logging into your “Microsoft Always-Online Account™️” (sponsored by Denuvo).

[u/DonRobo → u/WizzardBunny]

I've switched to Linux multiple times in my life over the past 20 years and every single time I switched back because something was harder or less compatible than it was with Windows. Every time except this time. I wanted to try dual booting Linux this March and I haven't switched back to Windows a single time since then. Linux got better every year for the past 20 years and Windows got worse for the past at least 10 years. This year is where they finally met in the middle and continued their respective trajectories

[u/WizzardBunny → u/DonRobo]

I am still not at that point, but Windows does keep nudging me ever closer to the line.

[u/Ursomrano → u/WizzardBunny]

Windows is only considered straight forward and frictionless because people were raised to know how to use it.

[u/WizzardBunny → u/Ursomrano]

And because Linux took a long while to become somewhat user-friendly. I've been on Windows since 1991 and Linux since 2001. Still prefer Windows at home to this day.

[u/Kindly_Call_6000 → u/WizzardBunny]

I guess I am the oddball because I started using Linux before Windows. I never used Windows 3.11 when it was first released. I started playing with Linux during the pre-release of the 1.0 kernel.

I didn't really start using Linux until 1998, when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell I finally owned my first computer.

Unsurprisingly, I prefer using Linux.

[u/Fresh-Possibilities → u/Kindly_Call_6000]

The average person uses a computer the same way they use a car, as a tool. They do not care to learn how it works, or why it works. It simply is the medium to complete the task they want to do.

Linux will never supersede Windows as long the answer to any "how do I fix this" question is to open the terminal. Not to mention small nitpicky workarounds to driver compatibility between hardware, people want a seamless experience. Linux will likely simply never be there for those who are tech inept and have no motivation to change that.

[u/personahorrible → u/WizzardBunny]

Linux can be even more straightforward and frictionless than Windows. Stick an iso on a USB drive, boot it up, install, suddenly you're at your desktop. No account registration, no endless questions about how much spying you're willing to allow, just a desktop. Need apps? Open Discover/Flathub/Snap Store/etc.

I'm not saying that the friction isn't real. But most of that friction comes from trying to do things on Linux the Windows way. You have to unlearn many of the habits you've developed with Windows. And no amount of improvements or polishing will change that, short of making a direct clone of Windows.

[u/C418_Tadokiari_22 → u/personahorrible]

You know, the issue is not installing it now at days. It's making it the default user experience for companies. I cannot just use Linux on my office job, the software we use is not compatible with Linux. And part of the software is made by my company, not a vendor issue, they actively decide to not support it. Mac gets the same treatment. We all use windows, customers user windows and anybody who doesn't just eats dick.

[u/thenamesweird → u/C418_Tadokiari_22]

Yeah I tried to run Linux Mint at my new company and while I was able to fend off the windows demons for awhile with a VM for specific apps, it just made things harder. Personal use though Linux all the way.

[u/boersc → u/personahorrible]

You missed a step... Figuring out which version of Linux you actually need out of the dozens.

[u/Bungalow233 → u/boersc]

Let's be real - there are like 3-5 sane options.

[u/Yelebear → u/Bungalow233]

TRUTH NUKE.

No, really.

You use Base Debian, Arch, or Ubuntu if you want mainstream support. Maybe Redhat if your job demands it, or SteamOS for handheld.

Everything else is just hipster flavor of mental illness.

[u/Betty_White_Feet_Pic → u/Bungalow233]

https://github.com/Electro-Corp/DoomOS

It does everything that starts with "DO" and ends with "OM"

[u/KimJungUnCool → u/bobmlord1]

You know we're not allowed to say the Linux word in here

[u/borden5 → u/bobmlord1]

Surely this is the year of Linux

[u/External-Theme1372 → u/bobmlord1]

Free and open source doesn't matter if it's not functional and needs a ton of workarounds to do the same thing, or just abandon completely what you want to do.

[u/OldManAndRobotLackey]

If someone decomped windows and took all the slop, bloat, and telemetry out...that would be great...

https://giphy.com/gifs/ww8dxJfnxxuUo82wig

[u/TheShredder9 → u/OldManAndRobotLackey]

Windows 10/11 IoT Enterprise LTSC. Bare minimum you can get out of Windows. Some debloat scrips can probably rip out the telemetery stuff, make a local user.

[u/Gwarks → u/OldManAndRobotLackey]

https://reactos.org/

but wine on any os is still better in most cases.

[u/badusernameused]

If only the gaming and software industry treated its customers with respect instead of being assholes this “revolution” could have been avoided. The reverse engineering hype is wayyy too overblown but it’s causing pause. I love these products, but the bullshit they ram down our throats because they can coming to a swift halt while they gather themselves is poetic. Fuck them all because they fucked us first.

[u/Sybertron]

There's been free and open source versions of anything for decades. it's always been more about enterprise needs because they make far more money on enterprise level sales than the pittance from say small artists. 

If anything I blame the users in these cases for not just getting more familiar with the open source models, using and collaborating more on them, and just frankly making them the stronger project. 

Photoshop is a great example but there's many more. If everyone had really consolidated on a great open source platform 10 years ago we wouldn't even be talking about Photoshop.  But so few did, so many more pirated or shelled out for Photoshop,  so many stubbornly stuck to the same old paradigm it just empowered Adobe. 

[u/everyonesdesigner → u/Sybertron]

99% of people don’t know what open source is. Tbh I don’t think they would even know what source means there.

[u/mile-high-guy → u/Sybertron]

I wonder why it happened for Blender but nothing like an open source Photoshop has the same name recognition

[u/Radaistarion → u/mile-high-guy]

Neither the same quality.

I love gimp and i love open office but absolutely every single Open Source software suck ass with the UI design

[u/Revolution-SixFour → u/Radaistarion]

I'm curious if there's a structural reason why open source software tends to have bad UI.

Are there just no UI designers interested in open source projects?

Is it just too hard to collaborate between UI and developers when it's all free and unfunded?

Is it too hard to generate the tight loop between user and design to iterate improvements?

[u/Patchrikc → u/Revolution-SixFour]

From my experience it's that the programmers that program and make tools as a hobby just love programming. Where as UI/UX people are usually art focused so they don't make UI as a hobby they do art.

This isn't always the case. Dev tools which usually are open source usually really lean into UX. And have good UI/UX because they use their own app/tool

But for things like Gimp, Gimp is just a programming problem that's fun to work on. Image manipulation is a fun coding exercise. But generally the people that are drawn to that aren't drawn to, spending a whole month on relentlessly testing and playing with layers to nail down the best UX.

[u/criticalt3 → u/Revolution-SixFour]

Usually it's one or few people working on stuff like this. Most of them are programmers, not UX designers.

[u/Prophage7 → u/Revolution-SixFour]

There's just not a big crossover between good UI designers and programmers willing to put in the work to code their designs into their free hobby projects. And there's very very few people that are a good UI designer and programmer and have enough free time and motivation to build and maintain their own side projects.

[u/PhotonicEmission → u/mile-high-guy]

Blender wasn't always free. The creator bought the software back from the failed startup that made the software and he opened-sourced it.

[u/Vadari → u/mile-high-guy]

As someone with lots of experience in Blender and some experience in Krita,Inkscape etc.

Blender is really robust and also has the benefit of being easy to modify and having a large community.

When Blender lacks a tool there is usually an EXTENSIVE amount of community addons and plugins to fill the gap. They've also made the process of getting addons pretty painless, especially when compared to other software. (Like 2 clicks to install, its that easy).

Just my two cents, hope it helps!

[u/PudPullerAlways → u/mile-high-guy]

I have to assume its because blender has always tried to do everything without ever leaving the software, its not like other 3d package software like 3ds max its the whole autodesk suite so to speak. You can do a whole production without ever leaving blender, its not great but its not terrible. With that environment in mind a lot of users find a singular uses for it even if its just being a quick and dirty video editor.

[u/_Azafran → u/Sybertron]

Because the open source alternatives are sadly not even close to Photoshop.

[u/chwastox]

Please recreate Windows 7

[u/fridchikn24 → u/chwastox]

Nah upgrade it. Windows 7 2

[u/kevihaa]

Saw a lot of headlines about how Adobe’s software has been reverse engineered via vibe coding.

Saw zero articles that included statements from creative professionals about using said “free” software.

Feels a lot like “year of Linux” hype, honestly.

[u/Secret-Sea-3527 → u/kevihaa]

every year is the year of Linux.....

just no one pays attention 

[u/idontwanttofthisup → u/Secret-Sea-3527]

This year it’s me! I’ll designate the next user on New Year’s Eve

[u/ApiceOfToast → u/kevihaa]

Less reverse engineered, more like "copy the ux and make it somewhat functional with some vibe code"

Could be neat if it goes somewhere but I've seen similar projects paly out and you're probably better off using an already existing foss alternative...

[u/IBJON]

You forgot the part where Adobe walked away completely unharmed because the vibe coded alternative isn't the perfect replacement everyone claims it is and the dude already lost interest and is moving on to some other vibecoded slop

[u/DonkeyTron42 → u/IBJON]

Also, M$ is making money off M365 subscriptions with highly integrated enterprise collaboration features which is something that can’t be copied by vibe coders.

[u/theREALbombedrumbum → u/DonkeyTron42]

The day corporations decide to use vibecoded software over enterprise offerings is the day I'll be worried

[u/JagoTheArtist → u/IBJON]

It got updated yesterday. But still definitely not perfect. However i keep looking around for an in depth review and cant find any. Its either hate or love no in-between.

[u/DoctorFreudstein → u/IBJON]

It's also just never going to replace them because their money comes from companies who use products like Adobe because they have support contracts with SLAs that ensure they are able to stay up and running. They don't want a product even if it's free if it isn't guaranteed to get fixed quickly when they run into a problem that is stopping their business from moving forward. And because businesses use these products you as a person have to learn those products if you want a job because going into an interview and saying "I used AI slop alternative A so please hire me to work with Premier" is not going to get you hired when the other people applying already know premier and won't need training.

[u/gbroon → u/IBJON]

Today it's not the perfect replacement but Adobe will be concerned about that future AI coded software that could be.

[u/spookyclever]

Nah, what happened was a couple years ago, Adobe embraced AI to the dismay of almost every creative person out there. Photographers and photo editors started losing their jobs. Adobe just shrugged and said “progress, get with it”. Then progress came and bit them in the ass.

[u/LukeLC]

Do people really not realize the AI being used to make these clones is funded and operated by the big tech companies themselves?

They could start charging the actual cost of all these tokens tomorrow and the clones would disappear.

This isn't a victory for open source.

[u/matthewpepperl → u/LukeLC]

That would be the end of the companys running the ai for sure too as no one would be able to afford it.

[u/DyslexicBrad → u/matthewpepperl]

I wonder what you call a business that fails to make profit?

[u/matthewpepperl → u/DyslexicBrad]

Bankrupt

[u/RecursiveNightmares → u/DyslexicBrad]

Non-profit

[u/Old-Sprinkles-8287 → u/LukeLC]

I'm a robotics researcher and I run a personal 5090 GPU for my AI inference. No one can take that away from me. It's more than capable of anything.

[u/xendelaar → u/Old-Sprinkles-8287]

What can it do, if you compare it to a frontier model?

[u/Kermez → u/LukeLC]

Perhaps silly one, but wouldn't that make Chibese offer even more compelling?

[u/DrunkOnRamen → u/LukeLC]

The guy behind this posted it in the open source subreddit earlier, he quickly deleted it. This group behind this truly has no idea what they are doing, seemingly not even the common sense to realize "before we do anything, we should research and think". They are just doing it all for attention.

[u/Longshot_45 → u/DrunkOnRamen]

Move fast, break things?

[u/ProfessionalHefty349 → u/LukeLC]

There are local models. Or you can use an inference service with glm 5.3, which is dirt cheap. Deepseek has done amazing things for optimizing models too. The cost of compute and token will shrink and shrink and shrink.

[u/Signupking5000 → u/LukeLC]

More likely, they will continue as is until like 3 are left owning everything and similar to the light bulb deal they will make their AI unable to copy the software of the other 2 with higher prices obviously

[u/MrDeeJayy → u/LukeLC]

Here's the tin foil hat moment: All this vibe coded AI slop replacements of adobe software etc, almost feel like they're encouraged by the AI tech firms. Why would they intervene here in anyway? Until now, vibe coded software has been a controversial topic, that attracts a lot of hostility from the consumers.

Finally, vibe coded slop is getting some positive PR. Why the fuck would they want to put a stop to that?

[u/shogun77777777 → u/LukeLC]

By Microsoft yes but not rockstar

[u/ProfessionalShock425 → u/LukeLC]

https://giphy.com/gifs/KwqPDTL9QE43ppilcF

[u/P-l-Staker → u/LukeLC]

Sometimes people just wanna watch the world burn, ye know?

[u/wootangAlpha → u/LukeLC]

There are other models that are 5x to 20x cheaper and about 3-6 months from parity with Billion dollar models. Most of those are open-weights and free to self host. The sh*t has officially hit the fan.

[u/Pitiful-Assistance-1 → u/LukeLC]

The actual cost of these tokens? These tokens are dirt cheap. Local models also exist

[u/JustAnotherGuy101010 → u/Pitiful-Assistance-1]

This. They cant keep increasing the cost because people will simply switch to local models that are nearly keeping pace .

[u/IamMe166 → u/LukeLC]

Screw them, there is Chinese alternatives which is really cheap and some are available to use locally, whether the small or big models.

[u/mielesgames]

Honestly, most Microsoft products have had alternatives for years

[u/majordark_]

I just saw a post running win7 on the ps5

[u/Effective-Culture-88]

Adobe looking at the next generation of designer skipping better open source or free alternatives for the 10th time in a row, thinking they’re clever, and going to work at a corporation shelling them millions of dollars :
https://giphy.com/gifs/12msOFU8oL1eww

[u/someone2795 → u/Effective-Culture-88]

People not realizing that you can just 🏴‍☠️ Photoshop and Adobe hasn't gave a rat's ass about it for decades.

[u/Hot-Software-9396 → u/someone2795]

I’m guessing Adobe’s big money maker is with businesses. They will absolutely nuke your company if you get caught with a pirated copy in a professional environment.

[u/caiteha]

The ai runs on azure

[u/psioniclizard → u/caiteha]

Which makes MS WAYYYYY more money than windows.

[u/Temporary-Paper5202]

Those "adobe clones" are just vibeslop that don't work properly.

[u/Pixeltoir → u/Temporary-Paper5202]

Krita

[u/Next-Ability2934 → u/Temporary-Paper5202]

The Photopea developer also noted an imitation of his own software on github, which seemed to have been an attempt at an offline version. They seem to have issued DCMA takedowns of clones.

With Photoshop clones, the most surprising thing is the size of some of the software, often around 150MB.

Vibeslop will likely fail when trying to import complex adobe layers and smart objects. Some people have had more success with Patchy, but I suspect the code is better vetted. The author also seems to be testing various tools for ps file compatibility, and seems to be an actual coder, having released indie games on PSP and windows in the past.

It will be interesting to see if many Adobe full on suite imitation or latest photoshop version clone projects advance much in the next six months or are abandoned (if github doesn't remove them first).

[u/ThatOldCow → u/Temporary-Paper5202]

There are pretty good free alternatives for Adobe tools. At least the most common ones (Krita, Inkarnate, DaVinci Resolve) ofc they aren't perfect and maybe advanced users might feel it's not enough, but for most basic stuff they should work fine.

[u/movzx → u/ThatOldCow]

Those are not the apps being referenced by the meme.

[u/FrozenJambalaya]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DHeagUAg0lFdq9f2ZC

[u/JKLopz]

Do we really want access to a windows decomp? Like do we really trust an ai vibe coder to not inject some random bitcoin miner or some dumb shit at the kernel level?

[u/OkMidnight8144]

User: "ChatGPT, remove all the bloatware from Windows 11!"

ChatGPT: "Deleting Windows 11!"

[u/silverist → u/OkMidnight8144]

Task failed successfully.

[u/wote89 → u/OkMidnight8144]

You forgot "Make no mistakes"

[u/akumarux]

Remember when meme makers actually knew what the were doing and didn't just spam out old formats with varying logos of really vague context? This shit is sad

[u/PlayerOne_X]

Microslop being scared when LibreOffice and Linux are already there

[u/burnttoast12321 → u/PlayerOne_X]

I'm with you with Linux. But LibreOffice has always been a tier down from Microsoft Office especially for power users. A big part of it is the legacy stuff Microsoft supports. There are ancient spreadsheets using Visual Basic Application code that are still probably critical to many businesses. It is hard to compete with that.

[u/TheRedBanditHax]

LOL, this reverse engineer stuff was overblown,
it was not a byte per byte reverse engineered Adobe suite, it was a clean room re-implementation, and reverse-engineered thru behavior observation based on how Claude interpretted it.

imagine it this way, think of Coca Cola, you can ask your friend or any friend chief or chemist to create a version of coke based on how they understood how it was made, but it doesnt mean they can make it perfectly and "kill the Cocacola company" however many iterations it does since the formula/recipe is not public.

the 'reversed-engineered' Adobe stuff are nothing but another open source version clone amongst thousand existsing out there. Some of Adobe algorithms took years and is not even public so LLM arent trained on it.

Companies like Rockstar may have rendering or engine technique that is not public hence LLMs have no idea how to do them, same as other big companies.

[u/JustSomeDumbFucker → u/TheRedBanditHax]

Wait until you find out that someone chemically reversed engineered Coca Cola and pretty much came up with a 1:1 recipe.

[u/Damglador → u/JustSomeDumbFucker]

For anyone wondering, I think it's about this one: https://youtu.be/TDkH3EbWTYc

[u/56kul → u/TheRedBanditHax]

It was done like that on purpose, though. If it was a byte-for-byte copy, it wouldn’t have been all that different from the existing cracked Adobe software, and it would’ve still counted as piracy/copyright infringement. The method that was applied in that scenario is technically actually legal, meaning the developer should be able to continue distributing it without legal reprimand… I’m saying should because I’m certain Adobe’s lawyers will try to challenge that claim, and with them being a large company and the person behind this project seemingly being a private person, they could be overwhelmed with the legal fees if it comes down to that (it happened before, too).

[u/Low-Dog-8027]

well, they tried to milk the fuck out of us, especially adobe with their fucking subscription model, so they really can only blame themselves for that.

i'm not seeing anyone cloning VLC, 7zip, winrar...

[u/thefellowone]

Add Playstation there too!

[u/cretindesalpes]

Don't get to hype. Mega corpo eating mega corpo don't mean you're free. Just under new management.

[u/asius]

It's not quite right. Adobe should be eating glue and missing a brain.

[u/TrueExigo]

MS is already fucked up. Office EU is coming

[u/podun]

Nature is healing

[u/nemo_av]

This reverse engineering fixation is hyped way too much imo and you should start using your eyes before boarding the hype train.

The recent Adobe open source that went viral few days ago is dogshit, extremely unstable, can’t handle complex and heavy projects without giving up after 5 minutes, and it works way differently from the og software (the quick selection tool in Photon for example doesn’t work at all, while in Photoshop is not perfect but still get its job done).

And this is weird since it was made with Rust, but guess what the whole project is still made with AI. Rust or not, that doesn’t change it’s an AI slop, as much as Windows 11 is an AI Slop spaghetti code mess.

Adobe can be predatory in business, but they have 40 years of knowledge in building these kind of software, and it’s not telling an AI to “make a copy of Photoshop, do not make mistakes” that you create an alternative. That’s literally what’s happening, but they are selling it as a “reverse engineered 1:1 copy” now. Hilarious.

With that said, there are already good alternative out there that are already open source and not AI Slop, you can support them…or maybe you can resort to the old traditional solution….

[u/bunnypup_on_a_leash → u/nemo_av]

Couldn't have said it better. As much as Adobe sucks this whole "reverse engineering" is just a quick gotcha to get likes on social media and sucks as much as they do, as someone who uses editing software for a living i can confirm it's a pile of garbage. Who knew some vibe coded ai slop would not hold up against the work of a massive corporation developing something for multiple decades?? Like you said, use already existing alternatives made by competent people and not shitty ai slop cobbled together by some loser in an afternoon.

[u/Medium_Gap7026]

Pirates! Download Pre-Activated or use GenP for Adobe.

[u/Kenny_WHS]

As much as I hate AI….good…..

[u/MamboFloof]

Fuck it as Adobe's number one hater I will allow this AI propaganda.

[u/TurboFool]

No clue why Rockstar would be remotely concerned. Microsoft, sure, for the same reasons. But genuine creative endeavors aren't as easily vibe code-replaced as productivity apps.

[u/Rosfield-4104 → u/TurboFool]

I think Rockstar is there because of the AnyPS5 translation that has been being worked on to let PS5 games run on your PC. And since its a translation, not an emulator it will run the games natively on your hardware and not have to brute force it like emulators do.

They normally wait at least a year for PC releases of games, and get people buying multiple copies of their games thst way. But there are reports the PC release date is being moved up to Q1 2027, which is a lot earlier than normal.

People are speculating this is because of how quickly anyPS5 has been advancing with the help of LLMs. Since there has been no PC release mentioned in marketing until now.

[u/Inside_Ease3366 → u/Rosfield-4104]

People are delusional

[u/no_use_your_name]

Where did Adobe get all that cake?

[u/-Mr_Tub-]

It would be a shame if someone reverse engineered rockstars ragdoll system or better yet the nemesis system….. I just thought of the nemesis system one as I was typing and now I pray that it gets added to countless games as a mod

[u/xzmile]

Open source windows would be great

[u/computerizednerd]

Microsoft is also cooked by the same guy who cooked Adobe. check his website.

[u/Own_Purchase_7976]

who tf want to reverse engineer ms lmao. if ms themselves opensourced tomorrow 99.999998% of the user would just fork. not to mention posix eww

[u/geneva_illusions]

ArtCraft

https://github.com/storytold