Not surprised, I was super suspicious when I saw this post. Like I bet the underlying image/layout manipulation isn’t that technically challenging at this point, but there is just so much that goes into every single operation from the UI to validations to operation that even with the best use of AI I doubt you could replicate any of the image/video products without several months to a years worth of dedicated effort.

Yes, I would have believed it more if they were targeting one app. But doing all seven at once immediately made me think they likely had no level of care at all (or a giant team?). Today's AI can be impressive but it's not up to adobe-scale apps without a lot of attention and feedback, if you have standards at all. There's a huge surface area to polish in just one of these apps.

I checked GitHub and it has only two committers and four weeks effort: One person +550k lines, another +3k lines.

I will say I'm doing some coding right now with Opus 4.8 and I'm shocked by how much commenting it does. I'm going to have to update my docs to tell it to limit it. In my last project w/ Kimi and Deepseek I didn't have this problem, code was decent but not as good as Opus 4.8 - but man the comments were a lot less verbose.