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Fireship · Oct 12, 2026 · Engineering Insights

Solo developer used Claude to rebuild seven Adobe Creative Cloud apps in Rust from scratch

“The software is a nearly unusable pile of vibecoded horseshit.”

A developer named Brandon Thomas used Claude to reverse-engineer and rebuild seven Adobe Creative Cloud apps in Rust, releasing them free as 'Artcraft.' While the feat demonstrates AI's expanding role in large-scale software reconstruction, hands-on testing revealed severe quality issues — underscoring the gap between AI-assisted code generation and production-ready software. The story illustrates both the democratizing potential and the current ceiling of vibe-coded development.

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