Vibe-coded Photoshop clones emerge, but brush engines lag

About a dozen AI-driven attempts to clone Adobe apps like Photoshop have appeared, with the largest project exceeding 165 developers and likely spending over $50,000 in API tokens in two weeks, yet none has matched Photoshop's brush engine, which collapses beyond 8K canvases.

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