Re:Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
by Aozora7 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:21AM
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I installed vibecoded Photoshop. The binary is 3 times smaller than GIMP, usability is much better, and it opens instantly while GIMP 3 takes five seconds.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
by dieselgate on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:17PM
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How is the feature parity?
Re:Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
by Aozora7 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:54PM
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As far as I can tell, they copied nearly every tool and menu and their behavior one for one. I'm not an illustrator so I can't tell how well they copied brush behavior for painting, but as far as editing goes, this does almost everything. One noticeable omission that I could find is lack of frame by frame animation and gif export.
I pirated photoshop when I was 12 and kept using that for image editing my entire life. The clone feels completely familiar and does exactly what my muscle memory expects photoshop to do.