Developer uses Claude to clone Adobe's software suite

Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to build seven open source Rust apps mimicking Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and other tools, with WebAssembly browser versions. The software is still in an early alpha and its real-world quality remains unproven.

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