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Alistair Croll

Writing surprisingly useful books, running unexpectedly interesting events, and building things humans need for the future. I ran that conference you went to that didn't suck.
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I'm an entrepreneur, author, and event organizer. I spend a lot of time understanding how to use data to decide better, how humans organize themselves, how tech changes society, and how to subvert the unnoticed systems t...
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This is the doom I predicted a few days ago, coming for Photoshop. A clean-room open-source reimplementation. No prizes for guessing that they decompiled Photoshop to source code, processed that to some kind of non-code specification language, then fed the spec to an LLM with an instruction to generate Rust. Adobe just got nuked. And closed source is dead, dead, dead. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

This is the doom I predicted a few days ago, coming for Photoshop. A clean-room open-source reimplementation. No prizes for guessing that they decompiled Photoshop to source code, processed that to some kind of non-code specification language, then fed the spec to an LLM with an instruction to generate Rust. Adobe just got nuked. And closed source is dead, dead, dead. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
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