Photoshop decompiled and reimplemented in Rust via LLM, sparking closed-source moat debate
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-10-07
- Naval argues models are the last moat in software: AI can train on essays, decompile and recode software, and recreate art — but AI itself resists distillation, so expect more software to retreat server-side.
- The quoted post claims this doom is now hitting Photoshop: a clean-room open-source reimplementation was allegedly made by decompiling Photoshop into a non-code specification and feeding it to an LLM instructed to generate Rust. "Adobe just got nuked. And closed source is dead."
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