AI Coded Apps to Replace Mainstream Products?

[Dos_Box]

For most here I imagine that you have been aware that have not been living under a rock and have been reading up on the current furore over the vibe coded Artcraft suite and Photon, whose aim it to provide free alternatives (whilst looking very similar) to Adobe products. Artcraft even has its own Office 356 Word\Excel and PowerPoint equivalents. 
Both have been coded via AI, and both, after some playing with this weekend in a VM, are not there yet. Not by a long way.

However, they could well be with enough time, effort and tokens.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm sure there will be plenty of legal and ethical considerations flying around in the next few weeks\months, but the genie, I feel, is well and truly out of the bottle. And where will this ultimately lead?

Imagine a Linux based Office 365-alike setup, or tools that can mimic the functionality of Microsoft management and deployment tools and integrating with a current open source office suite?
Admittedly, there is a lot more to the software and tools we use daily than telling an AI to code you one, there are often hard learnt lessons baked in there that AI may ignore, leaving you wide open to lord-knows-what, as well as near-do-wells looking to exploit the gullible\desperate.

 

When it comes to interesting times, we are certainly entering them right now.

 

 

[krobin]

My whole YouTube feed is full of coverage from tech youtubers, designers, Adobe haters...
The things that impressed me most was how fast it came together. And now with tons of contributors (+ Claude/AI), this is going to exponentially get better fast.

Plus... the scale is ridiculous: they have done so many apps (12) at once! Adobe apps, Office apps, Autodesk, Pro Tools...

What software would you all like to see next? 😉

Here are a few:

 

 

[DalekSec]

Is scary how well Claude can build software, i simply asked it 'create a mac app that monitors my internet uptime'

 

and it did it, flawlessly adding in things i didnt think i needed but did, all within 20mins. Only thing i had to get it to do was change the icon as it was same as the WiFi symbol!

[2ilent8cho]

I wanted a native ARM Sim Tower for macOS, it decompiled it and made it in 2 hours. Spend a few hours yesterday enjoying it.  Also wanted to port a Windows 95 copy of Atomic Bomberman to macOS (which it never came out on) I now have that and it got to even swap out the IPX networking for multiplayer for TCP/IP. (I did buy those 2 games back in the 90s so not being totally naughty). Its reverse engineering/decompiling skills are very impressive. With how many game companies have killed games or just let them rot I'm all for it, as they won't think twice about screwing over the consumer, I expect this will be very disruptive. 

[machy]

I Think the effort here is where its going to fall down, they might be 90% of the way there, but its the last 10% where they will fall. After the publicity has fallen if they are going to bother to continue. like with most open source stuff they need someone to maintain it, which seems less likely with something that's been AI'ed overnight.

 

At least with Stuff Like GIMP your going to have someone maintaining it, or a fork of it until the heat death of the universe.

 

and with Adobe, £25~PP/Month for a business, or £4PP/Year for a school isn't that much really if you also take in your getting support.

 

 

i think AI is probably better for building modules/plugins for software rather than whole suites, in the long run.

 

 

Edit: That being said, the more it can be used for software preservation the better

Edited 45 minutes ago by machy