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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 orochi235 »

I'm two weeks into a vibecoded Illustrator, actually (https://orochi235.github.io/weasel/swillustrator). It's built on top of a more generic WebGL presentation layer for canvas-based apps in general and Illustrator seemed like a fun test case. That said, I would think anybody who actually tried to use it for real work was an idiot. There are decades of convention and tweaks and learned lessons built into an app like Illustrator. It's kind of shocking how well Claude knows its intricacies, but even then, replicating them all would take a very long time. Also it's incredibly busted and full of bugs and I'm out of GitHub CI minutes for the month. :(

That said, it's been a whole lot of fun to build, and the real wins are in the tangents it lets me go off on. I spent a whole day building a "badge lab" and just adding random features and sliders. I had a sunset motif in the background of a garden planner I was sketching out, and it led to this, which took a day or two: https://orochi235.github.io/experiments/interstellar-horizon....

I think people are overestimating the danger AI poses to their livelihood, and underestimating how damn fun it is to use.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by tedggh »

Photopea was a solo attempt to offer a free alternative to Photoshop, and it was highly successful. If the original creator had access to Claude Code back in the day, it is very likely he would have vibecoded the entire thing. So it’s not like the tools are incapable of cloning Photoshop, but it would still require a lot of human effort, more than what the average person would like to invest.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by seemaze »

erelong wrote: post #292

I think it's an interesting conversation; there's an assumption that "vibe coding is complete and incapable of creating Photoshop alternatives". But it's more like, still open to debate but sounds likely: how long until vibe coding is powerful enough to generate Photoshop alternatives quickly? So yeah I think people would concede the point that vibe coding isn't quite all there yet; but is it there at the size of a f…

Where are the vibe coded Photoshops? Here is a good place to start:

https://github.com/light-and-ray/awesome-alternative-uis-for...

AI has obliviated both the need and the desire for discrete pixel manipulation outside of the existing professional disciplines. It has been replaced by the explosion of diffusion models with a direct human language --> pixel image loop.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by vatsachak »

bensyverson wrote: post #148
sph wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny how that works both ways. "I am 100x productive with AI, I can ship in days what took months before" and "oh no, you don't understand, it's not really possible to vibecode Photoshop" found elsewhere in this thread. If I were magically 100x productive, the first thing I would do would be to recreate Photoshop.

Can I ask why? Specifically, why Photoshop and not Canva, or Figma, or Lightroom? I ask because Photoshop probably wouldn’t have a market if it was introduced in 2026. What would you be hoping to accomplish by recreating Photoshop?

Sure. Where is the vibecoded Figma or Lightroom?

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by q931 »

bradley13 wrote: post #138
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. I have an acquaintence who is a wine connoisseur and collector. He has done technical project management, but does not program himself. Over the course of several months, he has produced an app that manages a database of the wines he has. It's a lot more that just a CRUD-app. In addition to maintaining the obvious data (name, year, winery, notes, etc.), it can take a photo of the label, parse it, and fi…

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Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by satisfice »

falcor84 wrote: post #215
satisfice wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI cannot take responsibility. It will not indemnify you. My decade is going just fine.

I don't get it. How is knowing that AI itself will not take responsibility or that it will not indemnify its users make your decade any better? Is your line of reasoning that using AI will very likely prove to be a bad idea in the long term and thus perfectly rational people with the same priors as yours will abstain from training or utilizing AI?

I am saying that AI cannot take responsibility. My line of reasoning assumes that you understand that responsibility/accountability is a crucial element in offering products and services in society.

Although software companies like to disclaim all warranties to the extent the law allows, neither the market nor the FTC will allow you to breach contracts, make outrageous false claims, or offer products that destroy life and property.

AI cannot and will not behave responsibly. I’m not opposed to AI, but I use it as a tool that I supervise. I review and test what it produces. People and companies that fail to do that will ruin their reputations, I predict.

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