There’s been some pretty decent Adobe alternatives out there ( Looking at you Affinity ), the hardest to replace being After effects, but in the last week apparently someone with a small team and Claude built and released an alpha version replacement for the the entire creative suite.
And word on the street. Not productions ready but SURPRISINGLY close considering it’s only been a few weeks of effort by a small team.
There long term stated goal, to de-enpoopify the entire software industry.
Could AI destroy value in ways other than being a bubble?
Could AI destroy all the corporate moats protecting software?
Could AI now be seen primarily as a way to steal IP?
Could AI end up liable for the IP theft?
Tomorrow could be an interesting day…
Wonder what the long term effect of this is going to be on gaming and gaming development tools.
Released it on github… Which is owned by Microsoft… So this could end up being interesting to the point of the magnificent 7 tech giants effectively memory holing the whole story.
I suspect the big AI companies have been Kayfabe’ing the whole AI is an existential threat narrative to generate hype. For it to end up as only dangerous to large corporations trying to protect monopolistic and rent-seeking behaviors would be a chuckling eyebrow raiser.