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Re:Stability AI: Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO by whywhywhywhy on Saturday March 23, 2024 @08:20AM (#39799398)
It was good in the 00s but now it’s rickety and antiquated and the GPU acceleration was never implemented correctly.

Figma could build an illustrator killer in 6 months if they wanted to and it would be obliterated.

If they actually tackled this task people would be kicking themselves for putting up with the shambles that is illustrator for this long.

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Re:Stability AI: Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO by ska on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:10PM (#39801420)
> Figma could build an illustrator killer in 6 months if they wanted to and it would be obliterated

Statements like this are almost always wrong, if for no other reason that a technically superior alternative is rarely compelling enough by itself. It that weren’t the case you would see it happen far more often…

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Re:Stability AI: Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO by andy_ppp on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:00AM (#39816414)
Well that wasn’t true when Figma just completely replaced Sketch. The sharing features and realtime multiuser interface is worth a lot to people.
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Re:Stability AI: Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO by ska on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:19PM (#39834380)
That’s a different scenario: could a system be built to eat X’s lunch.

The scenario I was calling out is more: Company A is great at X, so clearly that technology could be used to easily be great at Y, and doom company B in 6 months. The problem with that thinking is that often the technology is the easy part (and sometimes superficial similarity, also).

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