Perhaps a vibe-coded Adobe suite was inevitable.
https://tedium.co/2026/10/08/artcraft-vibe-coding-creative-cloud-remake/
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@ernie As you are a creative person who asks to be paid for their work, I was not expecting a “stealing is okay because I don’t like Adobe” vibe. In the post, you ask if this is legal, but I think we all agree decompiling (vs. reimplementing, say) is clearly illegal. Whereas Adobe charging high prices and having disagreeable policies is clearly not illegal. I worry about a future in which nobody gets recognized or paid for their work. Thanks for the thought-provoking post!
@DavidAnson my point, to be clear, was not intended to be pro-stealing, but rather to come out in favor of the the ground up approach that fostered it.
When I wrote what I wrote, I was thinking in terms of BIOSes and similar approaches to reverse engineering.
@ernie OK, this is really interesting! The first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on reverse engineering emphasizes the use of “deductive reasoning”, which is similar to my stance which precludes the approach taken above. HOWEVER, the section “Binary software” includes a reference to BIOS (as you cite!) as well as referencing decompilation specifically, which I think is more representative of your stance. It seems the definition is not so clear as I thought. :(
“There are real reasons to cheer on something like this, even if you otherwise hate AI. The spirit of this evokes a Robin Hood-like mindset, in that it exists because of real ethical and economic issues around Adobe that many end users have long been stuck with.”
https://tedium.co/2026/10/08/artcraft-vibe-coding-creative-cloud-remake/