GoKawiilAI 'vibe coding' projects race to clone Photoshop, but brush engines still lag
A growing number of AI-assisted software projects are attempting to recreate Adobe's applications, with one effort reportedly involving over 165 contributors submitting hundreds of pull requests daily using Claude. The author estimates spending on AI API tokens for the largest such project has exceeded $50,000 in two weeks, while noting none of these clones can yet match Photoshop's brush engine performance on large canvases.