We've been having an existential crisis in the SaaS industry for at least six months now. See stock prices and internal panic. The recent recreation of the Adobe suite (the hard way, not a decompile) is the nail in the coffin. A company worth $98B just had its most valuable software copied by one guy with a laptop. Software patents have always been difficult or impossible to secure and defend, all over the world. So there is little legal protection.

On the one hand, everyone gets all the software they could ever want now. That's cool. On the other hand, the entire profession and industry is soon worthless. That's a lot of lost jobs and companies. We are not ready for this level of change this fast.

▲ rimliu 5 hours ago | parent [-]

   > recreation of the Adobe suite.

Have you looked at the issues page on Github? Looooooooong way to any recreation, and I doubt anyone is even wanting to walk that way. It was all for hype, and hype it got.

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theshrike79 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It’s a 30-day-old vibe-coded project and pretty damn close to the original.

Do you expect future attempts to be worse or better?

Yes there are alternatives, but people resist change when they need to learn new workflows.

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Gareth321 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bugs yes, but it's also free. Most features are strikingly close to the official suite. Again, this was done by one guy with a laptop. If more people participated, or he spent more time and effort on this, and/or the LLMs get even better (which they are), most of those bugs would also be gone. This is a proof of concept which proved the concept.

I think it's also worth touching on the concept of good enough. Most studios have been building software which is FAR past good enough. Most people use a few features in any given app and rarely venture outside of that. Most people never experience any of the recorded bugs. They're just trucking along. I think this Adobe suite clone is good enough for most people.

	▲	rimliu 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are other free and not that buggy alternatives. Features mean nothing it cannot export the result right. It is not a proof of concept, it is a dancing bear - yes, it if fun to see a bear dance, but it dances terribly still. The money spent on tokens to make it useable would buy you lifetime Adobe subscription...