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Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? by spwa4 on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:55AM (#48177835)
No it's not. The point is that if building software is indeed way cheaper now, then someone should be able to guide AI to build Photoshop, Linux, or Excel while providing direction, but having the billions of tokens of human intelligence now provided by AI.

This is not happening.

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Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? by sinaatalay on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:05AM (#48177951)
This sounds to me like saying: "if poverty has decreased, everyone should be able to buy a 40m yacht."

We can now simply buy an artificial form of intelligence to solve intellectual problems. That doesn't mean we can buy our way into solving every problem in a week.

Building Photoshop or Excel still has a huge intellectual cost. We can use AI to help us get there, but it won't be free, it's just getting marginally cheaper.

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Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? by spwa4 on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:40AM (#48178921)
No, it sounds like saying "if poverty has decreased, I would expect the number of 40m yachts to double". I would expect Photoshop to get 5 new competitors. I get that my grandma would still not be able to do it.

That, too, we're not seeing that at all.

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