Doesn’t look like a decomp, but a vibecoded clone. A decomp would get sued into oblivion anyway.
I highly doubt this will ever replace the originals, but Adobe would deserve that.
if it’s a clean room implementation they can sue, but they won’t necessarily win. anthropic gave up when claude was translated to rust because none of their code or assets were used, so they had no standing to object to the software itself existing.
this is the same sort of issue john deere has with open source diagnostic software, and nintendo has with some emulators. it’s not illegal to copy features so long as you don’t reuse any assets. a complete rewrite of photoshop in rust might just get away with it. you can be sure adobe will be pouring over their source for the slimmest bit of their IP. and of course, even if they would lose, there’s nothing stopping them from dragging the other party through the courts just to ruin them financially.
If those apps have all the same tools fully functionally integrated, there’s absolutely zero chance it was vibe coded. It would take longer to vibe code than to remake it by hand, in order to get all of them working together properly. Vibe coding isn’t there yet.
It’s vibe coded. Tons of Claude co-authored commits.
the open source rebuilds that were made in days are buggy and a bit broken at present.
I think it could be both. They decompiled it, likely with the help of an llm, and then vibe coded a reimplementation in rust. They claim ‘clean-room reimplementation’ on github, but I’m not so sure this would be considered clean room. I don’t know, tho, let’s wait for the lawyers and judges to say.
mfs will do literally anything besides use GIMP
Gimp is useful software for certain cases, but it’s not really a Photoshop competitor or alternative. Maybe it could be if someone added the missing features, but I don’t see that happen anytime soon.
It’s an interesting story, but the comments over there throw some plausible doubt on the “decompiled” aspect.
So all of a sudden hooray for AI, who cares about the water and carbon emissions and “theft” and whatnot?
It was never really about those things in the first place, I’m guessing.
moth supposes none of the people here are serious about using the vibed versions, and are only finding amusement at something bad happening to a very shitty corporation.
it’s not really different than laughing about MAGA eating each other. just because one might think it’s funny senator foghorn leghorn called trump an asshole, doesn’t mean one endorses him in any way. sometimes it’s just funny to laugh at bad people’s misfortune.
It’s defo not a decomp. The footprint wouldn’t be anywhere so tiny & the code so tidy.
Anyway this: https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/115 makes it suddenly very interesting, because this one thing could propel the usefulness beyond LR, given it actually works well.
Holy shit they have a pricing structure? Def gonna catch a lawsuit
It’s a sub for AI actions, not sure if that bit is all that relevant.
Adobe will shoot their shot at some point. Shit is identical.
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