After coding exclusively with AI tools since February, Thomas said he foresees a near future when everyday developers can re-create open source versions of popular paid software to “take back the internet and own tech forever.”
“Now you can just create 1:1 functional equivalents, clean room, that are highly performant and cross-platform. Nothing is stopping you,” Thomas wrote. “We’ll replace Google Search, we’ll build our own smartphones, we’ll build better infra. We’ll remove all the ads and de-enshittify the entire tech world.”
This guy is full on delulu if he think using big tech AI trained on stolen material is gonna free them from big tech enshittification. Actual free, open souced software is always there for people to looked at, majority of people doesn’t need specific function on their software, they just need a software available right away without any tweak.
If they are using paid AI they are just transferring the dynamic from the paid software companies to the paid AI companies as no one will truly understand these apps and be able to maintain them without using AI.
And that’s the AI industry endgame. A world where developers are no more and people can only get software tools or apps from them by paying insane fees.
They want this for everything, not just software. Skillsets, knowledge bases, web searching, reasoning and logic.
They flat out admitted that with statements like “we want intelligence to be a commodity that people buy from us”.
They are fascism-craving sociopaths. That’s it.
“Bold AI developer” LMAO!
Reckless, careless, messy
Vibes ✌️
It’s both stupid and brave, so bold fits. Adobe will almost certainly want his head on a stack of legal documents.
Blanket statement by AI bro?
Yawn.
Perhaps the biggest fundamental problem with using AI like this - how can you know the programs it generates are truly clean-room replicas? Can you guarantee Anthropic never trained their AI on Adobe’s suite or any of Adobe’s code?
Also, if you’re desperate to cut Adobe out of your life, why not use the open source tools that already exist and aren’t at risk of being sued out of existence by Adobe
I think that you can reasonably defend yourself against those allegations. Even if Anthropic trained on some leaked Photoshop code, in most jurisdictions that should not matter. Software patents will, however, totally be an issue beause Adobe will have some patent on stupid features and send their lawyers
Personally, I’ve found features of Adobe that FOSS has struggled to replicate.
I hate adobe, but am tethered to them for their cabailities with certificates and certificate verifications. Plus a bunch of the docs I use never quite render correctly in other software.
That said, if you’ve got any fresh recommendations, I’d love to hear them.
