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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 self_awareness »

francisofascii wrote: post #153

Who needs a Vibecoded photoshop when you can simply ask for the image that you need. And that is my fear for many other types of applications. We won't need an application at all.

Well, you'll still need an application to write a prompt in. And to send the prompt to an LLM. And to run an LLM. And hundreds of apps to manage the complexity of the data center.

And, well, to display the image I guess. Or maybe you'd want to print it, but the printer needs firmware, and firmware is an application itself.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by carlosjobim »

altmanaltman wrote: post #52
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…

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.

1. Adobe sells Photoshop to design professionals.

2. Design professionals sell their work to businesses.

But if businesses start using AI image editing instead of contracting professionals, then Adobe won't have a market of Photoshop buyers.

Before you say that AI isn't good enough for the kind of business which pays for professional design, in one year it probably will be.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by jwardbond »

fnwbr wrote: post #163
bradley13 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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 just talking to a friend of mine who has been making webapps for himself in a similar fashion. Very little to no programming experience. His first app scans his course notes (med school) and creates structured question banks. He's released it so everyone at his school can sign up with their institutional email. The front end is hosted with vercel and the backend with supabase.

He also has one for tracking the stats of the volleyball team he coaches. He can do things like track the direction a player hits the balls during a game and save it for review later. Hosted with Vercel and Firebase I think.

Point being: he has no experience with software development before this (although he did have some data science experience), and in the space of a couple months has produced two high quality webapps that are being widely used in his circles.

I was pretty shocked, but after seeing the apps Claude made for him (or told him how to make). I can believe this story.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by maptime »

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…

We saw this happening for our SAAS stack we used, why pay for a massive SAAS tool with a huge surface area when we only used the desk+room booking and payment. Before building something like this was such a huge cost now it's becoming palatable

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by pbalau »

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"?

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by _aavaa_ »

TrackerFF wrote: post #174

I'd say that the main challenge for vibe-cloning big and known programs comes down to cost. Plenty of extremely competent devs and companies out there are porting FOSS programs from one language to another, while offloading all the heavy lifting to the AI models - but even then, it can cost a non-trivial amount of money, and we're still talking about programs which are 1/10th in size of the ones you've mentioned. I'm…

Because a small fortune with AI is smalller than the massive fortune and a team it would have required before AI. You can trivially modulate your burn rate with AI, you can’t really slow down development once you have a team you need to pay.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by sreekanth850 »

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…

Those were never the users of photoshp. I guess canva will get a big hit due to this.

Re: Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

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Post by bayindirh »

b65e8bee43c2ed0 wrote: post #177
bayindirh wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be first, show us the way. Be the leader of the rebirth of human dignity through welding.

yes, if I ever lose my job to an emerging technology, I will simply find another occupation instead of demanding the reality to bend to my will and that technology to be banned, outlawed, regulated out of existence. unlike the bohemian types, I do not consider myself to deserve some kind of affirmative action bullshit made just for me.

You're missing the forest by assuming "people who think they're unique are complaining for themselves about how technology makes them uncomfortable".

But more power to you and your welder.

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