Shokunin Studio: Attack of the Vibe Coded Clones - on all the hugely publicised bad and broken vibe-clones of Photoshop
https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/10/9/attack-of-the-vibe-coded-photoshop-clones
@davidgerard do you know how people are estimating how many tokens/dollars are being spent on a someone else's project? Some average PR cost times the number of PRs?
Still buying into the "AI" hype:
"They make the mistake of equating human app development time with generative AI development time (hundreds of times faster)."
No it's not. Not if you want actually working apps, then it's slower than human.
@davidgerard@circumstances.run
I love all the claims that Photocraft is a clean room reverse engineering project and, no. It is not. It's not either of those things actually. No reverse engineering was made and it isn't clean room.
Oct 9, 2026, 9:24 PM@davidgerard and this is why our Photoshop use is in a mac os 9 VM running version 7 from when we were in high school
@atax1a ours is that CS 2005 that Adobe accidentally leaked in 2013, the only way to go if you want good CMYK and aren't up to wrestling with Scribus's bullshit
@davidgerard why use a vibe-coded slop software, when Krita and GIMP exists?
@davidgerard What I get from that piece is that the vibe coders and A"I" bros are making a mockery of good ol' hate on corporations