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Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

#12
Same question I ask, it’s free money, why isn’t a million people asking Claude to build it? My guess is the lack of training data and understanding of the problems it solves, but AI was supposed to fix this already?

Happy I can use Claude for more trivial things, but if the AI labs wanted an actual benchmark, Photoshop or Davinci Resolve would be it.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

#16
The biggest reason they don't exist is that you can buy them today. Why pay thousands of dollars and spend hundreds of hours to vibe code a photoshop when you can use the real, existing photoshop or one of its competitors immediately for a fraction of the price.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

#17
People are not upset because "Level 1" was taken away from them.

For artists and creatives, _all levels_ have been taken away. And for most, their very basic needs (i.e. income) are being taken away.

And all that, just so we can get past "level 1"? Not even "level 4"? What kind of trade off is that??

We're supposed to be engineers. We spend days/weeks discussing how a table should be designed so it doesn't bite us in 6 months time. Yet here we are discarding almost _everything_ just to make "level 1" a little bit more convenient.

It's pathetic.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

#20

Not quite the direction I expected that to take, but I do agree with the broad strokes. LLMs lowering the cost of code isn't exactly solving software development, and is definitely not solving product development.

AI just frees us from always writing all the code ourselves. You still have to think at the architecture, and figure out what the product is and what features it should have.
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