ArtCraft Is Robin Hooding Adobe's Creative Cloud with Vibe-Coded Apps
What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe
I tried ArtCraft's vibe-coded replacements for Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, and InDesign. Built in Rust, they're fast and tiny, and they work well enough to open old files or build a zine. But rough edges remain: color pickers are clunky, fonts didn't show up until an update, and hex codes work in PhotoCraft but not DesignCraft. Still, it's a Robin Hood move against Adobe's subscription grip.
In one sense, it is "fighting AI slop with AI slop."
- liuliu
> Is an open-source vibe-coded creative suite really worth cheering on?
No. They suck the oxygen out of the open-source ecosystem for other more credible software, such as Photopea or Gimp or FreeCAD.
- hirako2000
I see plenty of posts from authors who didn't even bother trying any of these clones.
It seems it's buzzing because it make people who post about it, buzz.
We live a strange time.
- getcrunk
Is it just me or is it really hard to get a complete/working product out of an llm?
I find that unless I have very detailed specs with rigorous completion verification/criteria (manually atm) or tests. It’s like 60/40 at best.
And adding all the tricks only gets me to like 75-80.
Tbh I am using cheaper Chinese models (ds4.1f) and only pay for the $20 plans from the us labs
- sneak
The author of this project is pushing and promoting it HARD, on HN and elsewhere. It does not appear to be even remotely at feature parity, but they write about it as if it were finished and working.
IMO it is vaporware until shown to be otherwise.
- whalesalad
Adobe slept so incredibly hard on tools like Photoshop. They have been keeping that stack on life support for decades without any real innovation (Linux support?) and hostile dark patterns around subscriptions and cancellations. If we could peel the covers back and inspect the source I am sure it is as antiquated as a Pentium 3. They deserve to be supplanted by something else for languishing such a legendary tool. Even if it is vibe coded.