{"id":874539,"date":"2026-10-08T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874539\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:30:09","slug":"software-is-over-bold-ai-developer-takes-aim-at-adobe-with-open-source-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874539\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSoftware is over\u201d: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is software over?<\/p>\n

Thomas, who says he has about a decade of experience working on large-scale Rust projects, wrote on Hacker News<\/a> that he was inspired to create his own open source Adobe software alternatives after being \u201cbit by the dark pattern \u2018cancellation fee\u2019 one too many times.\u201d Development of the totally free options offered here under MIT\/Apache licenses will be funded, Thomas wrote<\/a>, by selling token-based access to the pre-existing Artcraft visual AI model and IDE<\/a>, which is offered as an imagery-generation option inside the apps alongside third-party models. This revenue stream will help ensure these apps aren\u2019t \u201cgoing to be some orphaned small-team project,\u201d Thomas wrote. \u201cWe have a team building popular software for filmmakers, so supporting this is fully funded.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Filmcraft closely mimics the look and feel of Adobe Premiere.<\/p>\n

Filmcraft closely mimics the look and feel of Adobe Premiere.<\/p>\n

Credit:<\/p>\n

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ArtCraft<\/p>\n

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Thomas is the latest in a long line<\/a> of coders using AI tools to speed up the long-standing but labor-intensive practice<\/a> of reverse engineering (i.e., replicating the functionality of a piece of software without directly copying the code itself). While that practice has generally been found legally acceptable<\/a>, the ArtCraft apps could still face legal trouble<\/a> if their \u201ctrade dress\u201d too closely mimics Adobe\u2019s familiar appearance and interface.<\/p>\n

After coding exclusively with AI tools since February, Thomas said<\/a> he foresees a near future when everyday developers can re-create open source versions of popular paid software to \u201ctake back the internet and own tech forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you can just create 1:1 functional equivalents, clean room, that are highly performant and cross-platform. Nothing is stopping you,\u201d Thomas wrote. \u201cWe\u2019ll replace Google Search, we\u2019ll build our own smartphones, we\u2019ll build better infra. We\u2019ll remove all the ads and de-enshittify the entire tech world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSoftware is over,\u201d he gloated in an earlier comment<\/a>, claiming to have \u201cone-shotted Photoshop. The whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is software over? Thomas, who says he has about a decade of experience working on large-scale Rust projects,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-874539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}