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Finding out they de-compiled Photoshop and ported It to Linux only to find out It's AI vibe coded shite
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2026
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My hope is that this type of shit leads to better decompile techniques not using LLMs. I watched a video that said that one of these decompiled vibecoded apps cost $180k in tokens on a $200/month plan
Who is dropping $200k to "decompile" photoshop
In this case, Anthropic. They let someone paying $200/mo use however many tokens they would charge $180k for at their current API billing.
Since Anthropic subsidizes even API tokens at something like 10:1, this decompile may have cost Anthropic on the order of $2 million.
nobody, "$180k in tokens" doesn't actually mean $180k is changing hands at any point in this process
For that much you could probably pay a team of coders.
No one paid that amount: it’s the dollar equivalent of the billions of tokens that were used by the LLMs. The “devs” only used a $200/month subscription to do the decompiling. This business model is why AI companies aren’t profitable since compute is wildly more expensive than what they’re charging users.
AI slop ends up costing almost as much as a senior developer if you use tokens/hr as your metric. Except a senior dev is responsible and trains juniors.
Ah. Hell even for $200 I'm sure you could hire someone freelance though