In case you wanted a mapping for what they're trying to clone:

PhotoCraft - Adobe Photoshop
VectorCraft - Adobe Illustrator
FilmCraft - Adobe Premiere Pro
LightCraft - Adobe Lightroom
PdfCraft - Adobe Acrobat
EffectCraft - Adobe After Effects
DesignCraft - Adobe InDesign
FigCraft - Figma
WordCraft - Microsoft Word
SoundCraft - Avid Pro Tools
DeckCraft - Microsoft PowerPoint
CADCraft - Autodesk AutoCAD
GridCraft - Microsoft Excel

And these are literal clones, rebuilt from the ground-up by letting LLM coding agents interact directly with the original applications, supplemented by screenshots, videos, user reports, reference files, and public specs/docs.

The cheapskate design newbie in me is so excited about this!

Eventually one of the agents involved is going to overreach and include some identifiable proprietary code/files/whatever, and when this happens the IP lawyers will come down on them with maximum force.

I think it's a near certainty that this project will disappear, and there's a good chance that the people responsible will go broke defending themselves against lawsuits.  Maybe this project is a stalking horse for a well-funded organization that wants to establish a precedent about software IP in the age of AI, but I still think that deliberately pissing off Adobe and Microsoft is way beyond brave and well into suicidal.

Relevant Ars article from a few days ago: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/software-is-over-bold-ai-developer-takes-aim-at-adobe-with-open-source-clones/

I can tell you that big SW companies like Adobe/MS/Autodesk have been aware of this threat for a few years. I don't think litigation will really stop this though because it could just be hosted overseas in some piracy-friendly jurisdiction.

I still won't trust vibe coded slopware. More stable alternatives exist already. Theft is theft no matter how large the company. 

The concept of slop-cloned Photoshop 2026 is a bit nauseating—but mostly because Photoshop 2026 is itself so sprawling and unwieldy that I already feel vertigo diving into the menus and speed-closing the pop-up tutorials. Start with a decade or two of scope creep, remove the QA department, add some new bugs, and slap a slop icon on it... 

Voila!

But I do think there might be a kernel of possible good here. Just yesterday Marcin Wichary wrote about the recent “relaunches” of RuneScape and World of WarCraft—and how there's plenty of bloated software that could benefit from a relaunch back to a simplified, earlier era.

I am surprised I can’t come up with even just one example of a software company doing something similar – I mean, rewinding the clock – with one of their bloated apps.

A much better path than slop-cloning the Adobe and Microsoft suites, plus Figma, might be for an ambitious developer to identify one piece of beloved software of the past, and restore/update/transform it for contemporary computers. (Which to be fair lots of hobbyists are already doing, see for instance Infinite Mac.)

I'm not going to try it, but word on the street is it's really pretty terrible, and in no way a one to one copy. 
You can also check out REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) on GitHub. It's basically what it says it is.
I don't think I want to use a reverse engineered version of one of these industry standard legacy software suites but the other day I was stunned that tracing app on iPhone was going for a subscription of $10 per month. So I thought to myself, I bet I can get claude code to build me that. It worked, its fine. I have no intention of monetizing it. I used it for what I needed, might use it again when I do. Saved me yet another subscription...