

I have creative cloud that work pays for. It’s awful, I hate it, I hate the launcher, I hate having to kick off my laptop so I can work on my desktop, I hate the whole sign in experience, and I hate how slow everything is. Most of all, I hate that I have to use windows for it.
Calling artcraft slop that doesn’t work is just coping with refusing to accept that AI could be used to make something good. I don’t open Photoshop anymore, photocraft launches in 1 second, I don’t have to boot windows for it, it opens all my PSDs, and while I’m not the most advanced Photoshop user, it works well for everything I’ve tried.
Film craft works well too, I had missed results with ultra key and it’s missing features, but it mostly works.
Pdfcraft replaced Acrobat, it can sign, it can stamp, it can do pretty much everything most people need already.







I hear you, and I agree with the sentiment.
Checkout their GitHub, they are completing pull requests from many people (no doubt using their own AI) that incrementally add features and fix bugs. They maintain architecture plan and docs so it’s maintainable, with future phases planned out. It’s not purely “make Photoshop” slop, there’s a bit of planning.
I don’t know if they’re competent engineers who review the plans and docs for potential issues or hallucinations, I haven’t investigated it deeply, but it’s not lowest hanging fruit slop.