If the photocraft suite had been manually written in 2022, with the exact same source code as it has right now, they would be the poster open-source project that people would point to for the power of an open-source community over proprietary software and be praised for the high standards of the source code.

Yeah, the Photocraft (or whatever that photoshop clone name is, naming everything *craft just blends the names together in my head) program, for example, is way too slow in WASM to be usable, I think it ran on a single thread without using Worker and basic optimization features like that.

Just because you can throw tens of thousands of dollars at frontier LLMs doesn't mean what they write would be good, you still need to have some oversight for their work.

Sure, but we weren't really seeing that at all. At least, not to that scale or degree at that speed right?

I'm seeing people vibe-code inference engines for custom hardware/models too. Are they good? That remains to be seen, but I didn't used to see this at all.

It does feel like something has changed to me lately. I expect it's only going to accelerate, and the quality only going to increase.

Usually it starts like this.

Some people are just hard to please. This is awesome