One developer, Brandon Thomas, rebuilt seven Adobe apps (Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom and four more) as free, open-source Rust apps, with Claude writing much of the code. They're early alpha, and he says so himself. My takeaway: understanding and rebuilding a focused app is now a one-engineer job.
Full breakdown with sources:
If you'd rather sell this than just watch it, the free Legacy App Rescue playbook in Service Playbooks walks through the offer step by step.
Earlier today's Short, on how I make AI Shorts for about a dime:
It's Friday, so this is the wins thread. This week my stack moved to two Shorts a day on the 500x Engineer channel, eight since Tuesday.
Your turn: what did you ship this week, and where are you stuck?
Drop both in the comments, even if the win is small.