Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.
I hate AI as much as the next Lemmy user but the new ability for AI to near effortlessly decompile code into readable source code is insane.
This is such a social upheaval of established tech empires. Im not about to go installing these vibe coded apps mainly for securty reasons but you cant deny its insanely impressive how this is even possible this quickly.
I truly believe this is what will burst the ai bubble. Because tech companies probably didnt want the whole world open sourced lol
Or it could usher in an age of cloud-only apps where customers don’t have access to the binaries so they can’t reverse engineer them.
This is already a clean-room reimplementation, not a binary decomp.
Lol would be fun to watch all of big tech turning hostile to AI.
New conspiracy theory: all the bugs and shitty code generated by LLMs are actually corporate safeguards to ensure you don’t create actually working competing products
For a while I have been thinking that all this nonsense about AI world domination and lousy safe guards on grok enabling people to do indecent stuff is just a way for fastforwarding us into passing regulations for hardware gated LLMs so that people can’t use open models too easily. After all, introducing bugs will shoot them in their own foot if open models surpass them.
As for shitty code, I think the more unmaintainable it is the better for them because then you rely on their services to maintain the code and eventually they might quite substantially ramp up prices provided open LLMs remain underdeveloped or hard to access.
Yup. Experienced it myself. Had a manufacturer who used Linux drag their feet at releasing certain kernel module sources (even though the binary clearly states they’re GPLv2).
Threw Claude at it and overnight it managed to reconstruct most of the modules, instruction for instruction, even throwing in a few bugfixes for free…
I look forward to people dropping the performative ingroup signalling before saying anything positive about this technology.
good luck
it’ll a generation
and it’ll get worse before then because ai will be literally collapsing our society
I give it another year.
It’s already like ‘I’m as vegan as they come, but you wanna go get some brisket?’
im about ready to just go full luddite on a hill somewhere