Dev recreates seven Adobe apps in Rust with Claude, reigniting software copyright debate
technollama · x · 2026-10-09
ArtCraft, an open-source creative suite, is going viral: developer Brandon Thomas reportedly used Claude Opus 5.5 (released Sept 22) to recreate seven Adobe applications in Rust in about two weeks, claiming clean-room reimplementation via public specs like the PSD format. Unknowns remain: how much code Claude generated, how much was human-guided, and whether the clean-room process holds up. TechnoLlama's Andres Guadamuz analyzes the software copyright limits at play and what other tools might be next.
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