we're rapidly approaching a state where anyone with some basic diligence and understanding of software can reproduce any software with a $20/mo LLM plan... even if all the AI apocalypse stuff is nonsense this will fuck a lot of stuff up on its own

those clones of Adobe's software (ArtCraft) aren't complete, but probably cover ~75% of everything I've ever used them for... this is absolutely terrible news for anyone running a business that relies on proprietary code

those companies switching away from open source to avoid corporate appropriation probably ended up burning a lot of goodwill for like a year or two of protection, we are absolutely plummeting to the bottom in terms of implementation costs