AI Developer Behind Free Photoshop Clones Now Takes On Microsoft Office
One unexpected side effect of agentic AI's emergence has been a drastic increase in unofficial porting and reverse engineering efforts, which has expanded from game recomps/decomp ports to ArtCraft now adding support for the Microsoft Office suite. ArtCraft launched as a free, AI-developed alternative to the entire Adobe Creative suite, and while it is not perfect, it is surprisingly functional.
It helps that the primary developer behind the open-source ArtCraft suite is 15-year software engineer Brandon Thomas, not a script kiddie with tokens to burn. That bodes well for the future of the project, especially now that the scope has expanded to feature applications similar to Microsoft Office as well.
Regarding the ethicality of his efforts, Brandon Thomas takes a distinctly pro-AI stance. But that also means ArtCraft works seamlessly with many existing AI tools, and in fact its "pricing" model for optional paid subscriptions bundles AI tokens. For people...
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