AI reverse engineering produces free clones of Office and Photoshop

An engineer used AI tools to recreate functional equivalents of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, while the open tool Reverse Engineer Anything went viral among developers. The method bypasses no locks but challenges traditional software monetisation.

• AI reverse engineering breaks software into parts and rebuilds the code
• The Reverse Engineer Anything tool went viral in coding circles
• Clones lack Adobe's proprietary AI datasets and Facebook's behavioural data
• Lawyers say the method may not violate the DMCA, though lawsuits are possible