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Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by carlosjobim »

Hard_Space wrote: post #112

I need Photoshop for an almost vanishingly small subset of all the things it is capable of, and this holds true for nearly all 'full-fledged' software that I use. So what may not be surfacing, in the absence of vibe-coded Photoshops, is the growing local script collections of many users. Since I have had AI to knock up Python scripts and workflows incorporating local ImageMagick and FFMPEG, I have devolved a lot of t…

There are no downsides for the customer if the software is much more capable than what the user needs. So there's not much of a business case for offering software with less features.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by netdevphoenix »

stevex wrote: post #34

I don't think that's the direction this is going to take. Replacing a mature app with an incredibly wide audience and a million use cases may or may not be possible, but what's actually happening is that people are making an app that does exactly what they want, and using it to solve their own needs. Previously you might use Excel to take raw data from various places and analyze it, create charts, reports, extract fi…

Exactly this. Anti-AI Devs/Techies have their heads in the sand or/and resorting to binary thinking when it comes to AI.

No one is going to vibe code a Photoshop replacement just like no average smartphone user is going to take prize winning photographs with their phone or directly compete with professional photographs.

What is going to happen is what happened to videographers and photographers and what is happening to record musicians: the medium is going to become more accessible by reducing the cost and skill required to make lower quality items.

Just like random selfies don't need you to be a photographer, neither will the one off random app that only your household uses require you to be a programmer.

Making a music video of a trip doesn't require you to know technical knowledge of video recording nor basic music theory. You click buttons and it is done. It won't win prizes but it will be satisfying for the use case it occupies: a one off low scope purpose.

Making tiny one off apps is definitely going to become a thing among people beyond tech and tech adjacent fields. It won't be code clean, it won't be code reviewed or even code versioned but it will be useful and that's what matters ultimately.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by plaidfuji »

layer8 wrote: post #175
plaidfuji wrote: post #109

If I’m understanding this correctly, it starts by raising this question, then argues that it’s kind of a cheap and meaningless punch-down. I’m not sure I completely agree.. I think these types of questions are more a response to the level of hype around LLMs and less about knocking people down. You see a lot of people excited about the personal productivity app they vibe-coded (which IMO is totally legit - it’s cool…

> definitely not written by an LLM Are you serious?

This comment couldn’t be more ironic given the content of the post

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by kenjackson »

darkwi11ow wrote: post #119
Retr0id wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frankly I do not understand what argument is being made

This is what usually happens with LLM assisted writing. Looking at other posts in author blog, they are as well likely written with help and guidance of LLM bot, and also bring feeling of incoherence when read. I'd say this style predates LLM by millenia so it is not really invented by bots. To me it resembles the most the older religious texts and especially oral preaching. Some of attractors in current frontier mod…

Honestly, would’ve been much better to just let the LLM write the whole thing.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by rebolek »

hypeatei wrote: post #180
fnwbr wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what about the data? is it locally hosted? if he drops his phone everything will be lost? or are servers and databases involved? if so, where are they being hosted? how did he manage those? even these sorts of stories are incredibly shallow and hard to believe for me personally.

I was writing a comment about the durability of this app, but you beat me to it. Something tells me that the burden of maintaining this thing through various OS updates, security policy changes (from Apple and Google), new devices, etc. is going to be frustrating for him. It's great that he vibecoded something useful to him in this moment , but I do think these stories are "counting their chickens before they hatch"…

It's not like you can't write "update this for next round of forced obsolescence " to Claude. Yes, it's unnecessary burden but solvable.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by hilariously »

pbalau wrote: post #185
stevex wrote: post #34

I don't think that's the direction this is going to take. Replacing a mature app with an incredibly wide audience and a million use cases may or may not be possible, but what's actually happening is that people are making an app that does exactly what they want, and using it to solve their own needs. Previously you might use Excel to take raw data from various places and analyze it, create charts, reports, extract fi…

Why do you need the AI to write a script? Why not have the AI do the work without a "script"?

Because then you have chosen a non-deterministic action when a deterministic action would do, thus making it more expensive, more prone to failure, and just more annoying to use.

Would you rather press a button and go through a simple process that's normalized across all crud apps or talk to a chatbot every time you want to solve a problem and invoke external apis?

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by netdevphoenix »

augment_me wrote: post #65
altmanaltman wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you understand Photoshop and its business if you think people are replacing it with ChatGPT or Gemini... the point of the article is that the whole "SaaS is dead and AI killed it" media narrative is bs propelled by the ai hype cycle.

And the point of the comment you are answering is that the market you are talking about has taken on a different form. The difference is that normally, people would perhaps pay a company to buy a PS license, or pay a professional to edit their images, however now this market segment will just use VLMs to edit the image to what they need.

What is "VLM"?

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by jofzar »

Im suprised no one has said its because photopea exists?

Like of all the products OP could have chosen, photoshop shouldn't have been the one that is chosen because it actually has a good clean competitor to it in the "free" category that theoretically slopshop would replace.

https://www.photopea.com/

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by Gigachad »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #127

"If vibecoding is what people say it is, the world should be drowning in vibecoded artifacts right now" It is. Look at GitHub repos. Look at the r/selfhosting subreddit. Look at the r/macapps subreddit. That doesn't mean people are "vibecoding Photoshop." Maybe LLMs will eventually be good enough that you can make a Photoshop without ever looking at any of the code, but they aren't right now. "And the accusers never…

Yes, we are drowning in slop, while also still paying for all the same tools we did pre AI because the vibeslop doesn't cut it.
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