Commentary: AI Recreates Photoshop — Copying Is Cheap, Decisions Aren’t
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Brandon Thomas's ArtCraft project released 13 Rust applications, including PhotoCraft, a Photoshop clone largely generated by Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, and claimed "software is over." This commentary argues the claim is wrong: PhotoCraft succeeds because it copies a fixed, observable target, while most real software requires decisions no template can…