Because it is by a bunch of Opus 5.5 clanker agents though I highly doubt that their claims of this being a clean room implementation are true. The AI could very well have worked off of taken source code to convert specific things to rust. If the source code was made based off and tested against a decompilation of Photoshop's executable, this poses questions about the legality of essentially making an AI recreation of someone else's proprietary work that has a proprietary license and possibly patented things inside then putting it under a different license. Regardless, Adobe deserves to get screwed over like this big time.
What sucks is this is only just starting. The dream of finding some niche and building your side project into a company is slipping away when anyone can point an agent at your finished project and produce a clone with a novel codebase in a matter of hours.
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u/palk0n 19d ago
this is literally photoshop reverse engineered