Even if it works despite being AI slop that's been developed in a mere 4 days (?) and somehow has all these contributors, I'm not sure I agree with the idea.

It's cool that they went with Rust for it, but I would have much preferred if all that effort went towards improving GIMP and existing open formats.

If it works then I guess it's the same end result at the end of the day, but it would suck if GIMP doesn't end up being the one to put a nail on Photoshop's coffin after all these years of serious development by humans.

Edit: I already see the kneejerk dislikes coming, I'm just interested in starting a conversation about the idea of it, I also dislike the fact that it's AI slop as I already implied. I'd appreciate joining the conversation instead of dislike bombing with no argument.

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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

It is built by AI agents, for AI agents. I guess it's interesting seeing software built from the ground up with hooks built in for every single action to be controlled by an AI agent, in that sense you could direct your own AI agent to use this to create/edit images. But even then I wouldn't trust this thing to edit and save over existing images, it is way too new and will have plenty of non-obvious bugs that would get embedded in every image you save.

And like most vibe coded AI projects this one will probably cease being maintained long-term.

If you're actually going to work with images you plan to keep long term just stick to GIMP, Krita, etc.

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

I find clean room implementations to theoretically be cool, but there's a big area for bugs because they're based on feature parity, to my understanding. I would love for a 1:1 recreation of software like Photoshop, but unless there's something that can also be done to iron over bugs, I doubt the implementation would be good.

[–] bashibazouk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting idea that probably does not deliver. Looks like their funding model is in-app AI gen in the cloud that you buy credits for. I'm always looking for an Illustrator alternative but have yet to find one. Lots of good vector drawing apps but Illustrator is so much more than that...

The app icons look like the the prompt was: draw [random animal] in style of O'REILLY programming book covers...

[–] chewypoops@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

AGENTS.md in the repo, btw.

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