Why are we cloning Photoshop?
AI is making it easy to recreate professional tools. I suspect there’s a bigger opportunity being overlooked.Editing in PhotoCraftOctober saw the release of PhotoCraft, an open-source Photoshop clone built with AI that had a similar capability set, but without Adobe Creative Cloud’s exorbitant monthly price tag.Building software with AI has become so cheap that a complex product which would have typically taken a large team to develop, can now be spun up for a fraction of the cost by a lone developer and a band of AI agents.Even in an age where we can use AI directly in creative tasks to instantly generate designs and imagery, there’s still excitement around having tools that enable creatives to retain tight control to build out their vision.So a cloned Photoshop solves the price problem, but if we still want to retain creative control we have to ask ourselves: do we all still need...
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