Developer Behind AI-Built Adobe Clones Says They Are "Not Anywhere Close to Ready"

Brandon Thomas built open-source Rust and WebAssembly replacements for seven Adobe apps using Claude Opus 5.5. PhotoCraft reaches about 76% feature breadth but only 45% readiness for real work, with beta an estimated 1,100–1,800 agent hours away.

• PhotoCraft covers 628 of 628 menus and 56 of 68 tools
• Real-work readiness is 45%; beta needs 1,100–1,800 agent hours
• The repo took 2,152 commits and 539,017 lines of Rust in 14 days
• PSDs written by the project are not yet reliably accepted by Photoshop