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Interesting idea. The bottleneck seems that most services don’t have a standard quote format. 3 roofing quotes come as 3 differently formatted PDFs with different data, so there’s no standardized schema for an agent to compare. Whoever builds that standard becomes the place everyone’s AI agent goes to compare contractors, and then contractors pretty much have to be listed there if they want any work.

@something_else raises a good point about maintainability, but where there is demand, someone will supply, and now that the moat is largely gone, there are thousands of people who would gladly supply the maintenance demand for a mere fraction of a fraction of Adobe’s profit. Maybe that’s actually where the money will be in the future of software. Maintenance could be solved by small dollar donations, similar to Wikipedia. Someone could fork PhotoCraft right now and make it their full time job to extend and maintain it, and probably make a shit ton of money doing it.

I would love to see their subscriber drop off chart for the last week. I bet they’re shitting in their pants. Glorious. Another interesting video:

Nice share. Thanks!

I forgot that Adobe charges you to cancel your subscription too. One of the worst companies IMO.

They didn't steal the code, they just figured out how to reproduce their features and parse PSD files the same way Photoshop does. Do you use LibreOffice, which can parse .docx files? It's the same thing. LibreOffice isn't stealing anything from MS Office. But it does fuck up the MS moat, which is a good thing.

It's not at full parity yet, so that explains some of it. It already does everything I need it to. I was also using its Timeline feature to edit gifs but I've since used AI to build my own gif editor. I was also using it to import PDFs to extract design assets, but Inkscape is sufficient for that. Even when it's near finished, it'll be much smaller and require less resources than Photoshop. I think mainly because they built it from scratch, without having to account for decades of compatibility requirements. Also, Creative Cloud bloat.

I liked these:

There definitely is/was a moat. Photoshop is often used for digital designs that need converted to code. So if a client hands you that Photoshop design file to build out, you need Photoshop to see the design, access all the assets, and see all the styles. There have been many attempts to build apps that can properly render PSD files, but they were never perfect, so that forced you to pay for Photoshop. Alternatives like Affinity Photo is good, but if you try to open a PSD file with it (a layered file that was created with Photoshop), it doesn’t load properly. PhotoCraft solves that problem.

Decent channel

@Lyubov Good points.

I didn't mean total fracture. Many Christians will not like the idea of livestreamed bullet to brain. Just like many on the right didn't like the whole Epstein situation. Marjorie Taylor Green is a good example. I'd call that a good fracture.

The more people talk about strategy, the more likely there will be strategy.

How does one go about that? What does the process look like, and how would one know when they were done with the purge?

Nice skill.

I haven't tried it myself, but I follow lots of people testing these models and I've seen its output. Its coding and design capabilities are far below Claude and ChatGPT. Claude Haiku 5.5, which is one of Anthropic's cheapest models, outperforms Grok at it's best. Check out how bad it is as design. Timestamped so you can see it right away:

You don't have to know Trump for him to do you favors. You just have to send him money.

This is one of those topics the left should keep quiet on, so the right doesn't galvanize on it. There will be many on the right who don't like it, so let the right fracture the right.

I was joking, it seems very unlikely, but I wouldn't put it past him either. Would Trump take action if Tate sent him 10 million? Seems risky to bet either way, as Trump has already done this for many other criminals. But the Tate's are probably too well-known and their crimes too nasty, so I don't think it's likely, but with Trump, you never know.

Trump will withhold aid until they release them, lol.

Trump will pardon them.

Yeah, they did away with all the CS versioning numbers and now don't even use version numbers in reference to them. Because who needs to worry about version # when you're forced to keep the app up to date with a monthly sub. These days, it's just Photoshop or Photoshop 2025, Photoshop 2026.

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@kavaris Sorry, I didn't even check out that website I shared. I figured it would have made clear what they were building. The repo I pointed to has: And they also built: So, they didn't replace the entire Adobe suite, but basically their primary tools. Dreamweaver was a WYSIWYG code editor. It kind of sucks and isn't that popular anymore, so it didn't make the cut. If all you're doing is creating your own work, you can get by with all those tools you mentioned. But if clients are handing you PSD files (Photoshop files) or .ai (Illustrator files), up till now, Photoshop ripoffs couldn't open those files and keep everything intact, which forced tons of people to stick with the Adobe ecosystem. That's changing now, and I'm 100% here for it. Fuck Adobe. Price hikes nearly every year or two. AI is putting an end to their monopoly.