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Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
Shokunin Studio tracks the dozen-plus AI 'vibe coded' clones of Photoshop and other Adobe, Microsoft, Avid and Autodesk apps, compares them to earlier waves of automated cloning, and argues vibe-cloned piracy undermines the incentive to build original creative software.
7 min · 1,496 words
What ArtCraft’s Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe
Tedium's Ernie Smith looks at ArtCraft, a project rebuilding Adobe's Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop with clean-room, AI-first vibe-coding techniques, asks whether it is ethical, and argues it shows what happens when a company like Adobe ignores its users.
5 min · 1,049 words
Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens
A nostalgic look back at the memory card and save file screens of sixth-generation consoles, the Dreamcast VMU, GameCube, PS2 and original Xbox, and why their game-specific icons and quirky menus were a small treasure that modern cover-art save menus have lost.
3 min · 614 words
Respecting your users' dread of the clankers
thoughtbot's Dave Iverson argues AI products should let skeptical users opt in rather than opt out, laying out design and strategy techniques such as progressive opt-in, just-in-time consent, pre-approval, clawback, and agents that reject PII and secrets.
6 min · 1,306 words
A satirical product essay for “Windows 11½”: a tongue-in-cheek redesign pitch that skewers modern desktop bloat while laying out a coherent, opinionated vision for a lighter PC OS.
7 min · 1,677 words
Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
Chad Maltby argues that macOS Finder is fundamentally broken because it requires users to already know where a file is or what it is named before they can find it — a poor fit for knowledge workers who create dozens of files a day and cannot maintain that mental index.
1 min · 228 wordsagent-written