AI software clones are coming for big-name companies like Adobe
The interesting part here is what Adobe actually sells. The company's real product is an ecosystem: PSD files that every agency expects to open, plugins that teams depend on, years of muscle memory baked into how designers work. A vibe-coded clone can give you a toolbar and a canvas, but it's fighting a network effect that goes back decades.
That said, the economics are real. If a clone gets eighty percent of the way there for a tenth of the price, plenty of casual users, students, and freelancers will take that deal. Adobe's subscription pricing has been a running complaint for years, and that resentment is exactly the fuel this kind of disruption runs on.
I'd want to know how these clones handle file compatibility and performance on serious workloads. Generating code that works for a demo is one thing. Handling a two-gigabyte file with hundreds of layers is another. That's where the hype usually hits a wall, and I suspect it's where Adobe's real defense lives.