Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.
I love it! Big tech wants control of everything. They put out AI, that they can’t control, and we have open source models breathing down their necks. (Imo the worst case scenario isn’t AI wiping us out but being entirely subservient and in control of the psycho pdf billionaires)
And now AI is breaking down closed software moats. I really hope this becomes a trend. And it’s not like they can get frontier the AI labs to stop this, cos that wouldn’t stop everyone else.
Also imagine all the crap analytics and spyware all these closed source software products have in them. Let’s decompile every single one and hang the companies with it. Let’s reverse engineer every “smart car” software and disable all connectivity. Let’s make any IoT device work with Home Assistant. Let’s drive John Deer into bankruptcy.
I’d take open source AI code any day over adobe or amazon or meta’s shit.
You’d still need hardware access to install that software, presumably? Surely it would break some sort of warrant. Also, as much as I despise connectivity in smart cars, I’m not sure I’m comfortable having AI code injected into my car. Then again, the car companies are surely already injecting AI slop into every single new car these days… Maybe it’s not such a bad idea after all. It’s rough, but we gotta fight slop with slop.
Even with access to the car hardware would it be impossible to just flash a new firmware onto it, not without some major security flaw in their bootloader or leaked keys to sign the new firmware. It is all locked down tightly.