One Person Used AI to Rewrite 30 Years of Adobe as Free, Open-Source Software
Engineer Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 to rewrite the entire Adobe suite in Rust in two weeks, releasing ArtCraft, a free, open-source app that runs locally and has already collected over 20,000 GitHub stars. I think the point isn’t saving on subscription fees, but the MCP interface ArtCraft ships with, which lets AI agents operate creative tools directly and hints that the user of software may soon not be a human.