“软件已死”：大胆的 AI 开发者以开源克隆产品剑指 Adobe

软件已死？

Thomas 自称拥有约十年大型 Rust 项目开发经验。他在 Hacker News 上写道，在多次被“取消费用”这一黑暗模式坑到之后，他受到启发，决定打造自己的开源 Adobe 软件替代品。Thomas 写道，这里提供的完全免费选项采用 MIT/Apache 许可证，其开发资金将来自销售基于 Token 的访问权限，所售产品是既有的 Artcraft 视觉 AI 模型和 IDE；该模型和 IDE 在这些应用中会与第三方模型一道，作为图像生成选项提供。

Thomas 写道，这一收入来源将有助于确保这些应用不会“变成某个被遗弃的小团队项目”。“我们有一个团队在为电影制作人打造广受欢迎的软件，因此对这项工作的支持资金是充足的。”

Filmcraft 在外观和使用体验上高度模仿 Adobe Premiere。

Filmcraft 在外观和使用体验上高度模仿 Adobe Premiere。

来源： ArtCraft

Thomas 是一长串开发者中的最新一位。这些开发者正在利用 AI 工具，加速长期存在但劳动密集型的实践——逆向工程（即在不直接复制代码本身的前提下，复刻某款软件的功能）。尽管这种做法通常被认为在法律上可以接受，但如果 ArtCraft 应用的“商业外观”（trade dress）过于接近 Adobe 广为人知的视觉设计和界面，它们仍可能遭遇法律纠纷。

Thomas 表示，自 2 月以来一直完全使用 AI 工具编程后，他预见在不久的将来，普通开发者就能重建热门付费软件的开源版本，从而“夺回互联网，并永远拥有技术”。

Thomas 写道：“现在，你可以通过净室方式，直接创建功能 1:1 等价、高性能且跨平台的产品。没有任何事情能够阻止你。我们会取代 Google Search，我们会打造自己的智能手机，我们会建设更好的基础设施。我们会移除所有广告，让整个科技世界摆脱劣化。”

他此前在一条评论中洋洋得意地宣称：“软件已死。”他还声称自己“单次完成了 Photoshop，整个东西都做出来了。”

Is software over?

Thomas, who says he has about a decade of experience working on large-scale Rust projects, wrote on Hacker News that he was inspired to create his own open source Adobe software alternatives after being “bit by the dark pattern ‘cancellation fee’ one too many times.” Development of the totally free options offered here under MIT/Apache licenses will be funded, Thomas wrote, by selling token-based access to the pre-existing Artcraft visual AI model and IDE, which is offered as an imagery-generation option inside the apps alongside third-party models. This revenue stream will help ensure these apps aren’t “going to be some orphaned small-team project,” Thomas wrote. “We have a team building popular software for filmmakers, so supporting this is fully funded.”

Filmcraft closely mimics the look and feel of Adobe Premiere.

Filmcraft closely mimics the look and feel of Adobe Premiere.

Credit: ArtCraft

Thomas is the latest in a long line of coders using AI tools to speed up the long-standing but labor-intensive practice of reverse engineering (i.e., replicating the functionality of a piece of software without directly copying the code itself). While that practice has generally been found legally acceptable, the ArtCraft apps could still face legal trouble if their “trade dress” too closely mimics Adobe’s familiar appearance and interface.

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.”

“Software is over,” he gloated in an earlier comment, claiming to have “one-shotted Photoshop. The whole thing.”