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Version One Is Cheap Now. What ArtCraft's AI-Built Clones Teach Software Engineers
October 15, 2026
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In two weeks, one small team used coding agents to publish open-source reimplementations of Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, Word and Excel. I read the repositories to see how they were built, how far along they really are, and what commercial users still depend on. My conclusion: version one of software is becoming cheap, and the valuable work moves to fit, verification, support and risk.