Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint…
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Hey, Recently I saw a tweet and a bunch of YT videos about the cloning of the whole Adobe suite apps such as Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, Designer etc with Claude. now, some of those apps have been around for over 35 years. I was highly distrustful that the gigantic apps such as these can be vibe-coded in just 2 weeks. Now, I’ve started seeing a lot of Twitter posts saying these cloned apps are super buggy and not thought out at all. The developer apparently just tried to copy the features for the sake of it, more focused on one‑to‑one visual mapping of the UI than the underlying robustness. Now, I haven’t tried any of them myself, but as someone who’s been dabbling in AI for the past two years and has built a few small‑to‑medium apps (two of them over 250k LOC) , the idea of clon
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