A solo developer posting as u/ai_art_is_art on Reddit claims to have rebuilt the most-used Adobe Creative Suite products as open-source Rust applications using Anthropic's Claude. The original post was removed, but links to the GitHub repositories remain. The suite includes PhotoCraft, LightCraft, ImageCraft, and FilmCraft, designed to mimic Adobe's familiar layouts and workflows.
The developer's stated goal is to reach 100% parity with Adobe's tools within a month, unifying the experience in a way that existing free alternatives like Affinity do not. The software is also built to be agent-native, exposing a JSON control channel and an MCP server so AI can directly drive the tools and menus.
Reactions are mixed. Some commenters call it piracy, while defenders say it is a clean-room reimplementation with no Adobe code copied. Skeptics warn about the risks of vibecoded software: a single person generating hundreds of thousands of lines of code quickly makes verification difficult. The article cites a Sonar survey of 1,100 developers finding that 96% do not fully trust AI-generated code, with concerns ranging from malicious code to unsafe file handling. Whether the project gains enough collaborators to close the feature gap remains to be seen.