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If AI Can Copy Photoshop, Why Would Anyone Build the Next Figma?

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Brandon Thomas released PhotoCraft, a free, early-alpha, AI-built clone of Photoshop, and seven other Adobe apps, which quickly drew over 72,000 GitHub stars. The piece asks whether cheap AI cloning makes building new software more or less likely.

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