Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? by augment_me on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:02AM (#48177925)

And the point of the comment you are answering is that the market you are talking about has taken on a different form.

The difference is that normally, people would perhaps pay a company to buy a PS license, or pay a professional to edit their images, however now this market segment will just use VLMs to edit the image to what they need.

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Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? by vidarh on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:39AM (#48178260)

It goes beyond that. It's becoming cheaper and easier to e.g. vibecode tools to carry out the handful of uses lower end users may have for PS. Some users will do that directly. Some users will turn that into services or apps. PS will be weakened by thousands of small cuts, not one large vibecoded abomination.

Some of those tools will use VLMs to provide more advanced features instead of implementing it themselves, making competing for a broader subset of users feasible.

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Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? by netdevphoenix on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:27AM (#48178763)

What is "VLM"?

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Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? by famouswaffles on Monday May 18, 2026 @09:24AM (#48179528)

Vision Language Models

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Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? by ses1984 on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:44AM (#48178969)

Very large models that aren’t large language models.

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