The stark contrast between HN comments and everywhere else makes me think HN may be one of the last places left for grounded technical discussion.
Everyone on Twitter is acting as if Adobe’s software was decompiled, rewritten, and that’s it—game over, without even trying the damn thing. Seeing software engineers themselves espouse this nonsense is particularly annoying.
Yes, AI can recreate photoshop. But Photoshop is the product of thousands of tiny design, engineering, and product decisions. The idea that all of those decisions can simply be “decoded” from compiled binaries is laughable.
> But Photoshop is the product of thousands of tiny design, engineering, and product decisions. The idea that all of those decisions can simply be “decoded” from compiled binaries is laughable.
I actually think a couple passes with AI through the product will cover 80+ % of the use-cases people will have and people will have no problem switching to the new thing.
Even if this isn't perfect, with each frontier coding model release we get closer and closer to small teams one-shotting complex software like this.
I'm certainly not going to hold Adobe stock long-term.
If this is even 50% functional its going to have an impact on adobe revenue.
Would be amazing to this these tools in Linux distros.
The stark contrast between HN comments and everywhere else makes me think HN may be one of the last places left for grounded technical discussion.
Everyone on Twitter is acting as if Adobe’s software was decompiled, rewritten, and that’s it—game over, without even trying the damn thing. Seeing software engineers themselves espouse this nonsense is particularly annoying.
Yes, AI can recreate photoshop. But Photoshop is the product of thousands of tiny design, engineering, and product decisions. The idea that all of those decisions can simply be “decoded” from compiled binaries is laughable.
> But Photoshop is the product of thousands of tiny design, engineering, and product decisions. The idea that all of those decisions can simply be “decoded” from compiled binaries is laughable.
I actually think a couple passes with AI through the product will cover 80+ % of the use-cases people will have and people will have no problem switching to the new thing.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981449
how was this achieved? Is this group super well funded? Is this just Claude churning for 3 months?
Based on how non-functional it is I would say Claude churning for a weekend or less.
So probably not really clean room.