Hands-on test of Photoshop alternatives, and whether AI coding could rebuild it
What happened
On October 7, Hacker News' front page featured a post on Photoshop alternatives and whether AI coding could replicate Photoshop. The author tested several alternatives and found they could already handle his PSD files, then discussed the feasibility of rebuilding Photoshop through agentic coding and how time factors into that question. The post states plainly that it cannot confirm whether those alternative projects were built by AI coding. So the report shows the alternatives can open the author's files, not that AI coding has reproduced Photoshop.
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- Hacker News front pageVibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure
多款 Photoshop 替代工具已能处理作者的 PSD 文件，文章据此讨论智能体编程的可行性，但明确无法确认这些项目是否由 AI 编程完成。
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