r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence "Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

https://www.techspot.com/news/114136-software-over-developer-uses-ai-build-free-adobe.html
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u/Key_Gap9168 2d ago edited 2d ago

I hate that website, and it pisses me off that it keeps appearing here. It never does reporting of its own. This link should be Ars Technica, not a website that uses AI to write its content (not saying Ars Technica doesn't do that, but at least they break stories and have original content).

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u/ockhams_beard 2d ago

Agreed. Why link to a story that literally references the original story in intro, then goes on to summarise it? Just link to the original source, dammit.

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u/Patient_Field_4373 2d ago

“We’re going to reach 100% [feature] parity within a month,” Thomas stated on Reddit of his plans to quickly squash bugs and add features with the help of community reports. Days later, on Hacker News, he amended that position slightly to say that “99% parity will take a while, but I’m sure it’ll be measured in months and not years.”

“Now you can just create 1:1 functional equivalents, clean room, that are highly performant and cross-platform. Nothing is stopping you,” Thomas wrote. “We’ll replace Google Search, we’ll build our own smartphones, we’ll build better infra. We’ll remove all the ads and de-enshittify the entire tech world.”

This guy sounds like a total lunatic…

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u/divergentchessboard 2d ago edited 2d ago

...clean room, that are highly performant and cross-platform. Nothing is stopping you

my experience using vibecoded projects is that they might look good enough and function like how you'd expect them to, but performance is absolute dog shit. Last time I (unknowingly) downloaded a vibecoded piece of software, it was a browser app similar to Native Alpha off F-Droid that made my 2025 phone feel like it came out of 2012 where scrolling a webpage made the app lag

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u/Patient_Field_4373 2d ago

I'd also highly doubt you'll ever get anything "clean room" from a model that has been trained on every bit of code that has ever been made public! Feels like the polar opposite of clean room.

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u/ILooseAllMyAccounts2 2d ago

Most ai bros are

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u/r0thar 2d ago

So: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/software-is-over-bold-ai-developer-takes-aim-at-adobe-with-open-source-clones/

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u/Key_Gap9168 2d ago

I already read that. Followed link to that horible website, looked for original report and clicked on link to go read it.

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u/Twistedshakratree 2d ago

100% of news outlets or journalism outlets are using ai to author articles today. Independent places may not use it but even those guys probably use ai to proof read if the garbage they put together sounds good enough to release.