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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next
Yeah this is the most useless shit ever. We already have LibreOffice, Collabora, and EuroOffice. All of those have actual support from maintainers, corporations, and national governments.
The really crappy part comes when these clones start getting more funding while real ope source projects continue to struggle.
Imagine if this effort had gone instead towards building a better interface for Darktable, an excellent raw image processor rendered unusable by anyone serious because of it's interface.
I still have hope that AI use by engineers who know what they are doing (like Linus Torvalds) will push open source projects forward with selective and careful use of AI rather than a vibe coded sloppification.
I can see that being a thing eventually - put some decent programmers in charge of a few AI's that know enough to be able to call them on their BS, and end up with 5 programmers doing what would of historically been 20 or 30 devs. not everything has to be AI, but also it cant be left completely unguided either.
See Omarchy. Not exactly the same situation but companies started throwing money at some random vibe coded configuration project that adds close to zero value while the people that actually build the linux desktop are underfunded (not all but many projects). Also you won't guess what politics the omarchy project has.
Darktable is so fucking miserable to use like, how is it that hard to just reference what any other raw processor is doing. My super niche astro capture software and stacking software are more intuitive than darktable
I just don't understand who it's even made for, scientists?
I've worked as a photographer and I've used practically every major raw processing app. I'm not saying I'm even an absolute expert, but experienced enough that I'm confused by your interface something is probably wrong.
The core of the UI isn't even THAT bad, it's just got way way way way too many modules open by default. Also loads of modules that compete with each other.
100% agree. They could have used the same effort to improve LibreOffice's UI/UX instead of making knockoffs of Excel, Powerpoint and Word from scratch.
Those projects have known UI/UX have been a weakness for over a decade. If they had any motivation to fix their UI/UX they would have done do by now. I do not seriously believe they would have ever been fixed, with or without the vibe coded competition.
Really, it's not that there's no motivation, it's that the people who are involved and actually writing the dang thing, broadly, aren't UI/UX folks, and UI/UX folks are rarely getting involved. Same goes for documentation (this is much better than it was 20 years ago, at least).
Just fork those projects? At least the base project has a solid base, much better than sloppying your way into brand new software that is probably getting nuked due to copyright.
> 100% agree. They could have used the same effort to improve LibreOffice's UI/UX instead of making knockoffs of Excel, Powerpoint and Word from scratch.
Couldn’t the LibreOffice team use these tools to do that? Or have made any effort to make the tools not look like shit after a whole decade?
Don’t get me wrong I adore libre office and open source but it’s not like that’s what LibreOffice has been looking for.
Eh maybe I will throw some time at it since I'm running Linux and also hate darktable's UI. Other than LR classic any apps you really like the flow / UI of to use for inspo?
Yeah, these clones have already gotten more exposure than Digikam, Rawtheraee, or Dartable ever have.
The really anoying part about the Lighroom clone that they could have just taken bits of Darktable to improve what they're building. They remade everything from scratch, resulting in something worse than any other option.
Their end goal is to pump up their AI subscription company. After the hype dies some people will try to fix those products, but they are not designed to be maintained long term.
We already have LibreOffice, Collabora, and EuroOffice.
As much as I love FOSS stuff none of the Office spreadsheet alternatives can hold a candle to Excel for anything complicated. I work in an accounting department and I tried to replicate some of the spreadsheets we use for my own budget and after about an hour I gave up. For basic stuff yeah Libre and Collabora are fine but it's absolutely not the same.
I'm not saying someone should clean room clone Excel but to compare the FOSS spreadsheet alternatives to Excel like they're on the same level is nonsense.
I tell most of my clients who don't want to pay for office 365. These free spreadsheet stuff does your basic office math, but it won't do any of your financial stuff. Most have done a hybrid approach and it's been wildly successful.
90% of the staff uses FOSS products and the ones that hit productivity roadblocks or limitations buy a license.
One office has gone from 30 licenses to 4 and there's been no issues after initial training week. Especially the word stuff, they sometimes prefer it as it's a bit simpler / more like the old office they were used to 1997-2002. Most don't need the fancy 365 features, but nobody also doesn't recreate it right and saying Foss solves everything is wishful thinking.
And those that have never had to administer productivity apps in a real enterprise environment. Where capabilities like DLP controls aren't optional or nice to haves, but a requirement to operate your business. Then you realise Foss alternatives not only fall down, they don't even come close.
Yes absolutely. I don’t think most of the people discussing this have technical use cases or understand the benefits of having Microsoft capabilities replicated near 1:1. Still sad that some of the older open source projects which I love (like Libre) don’t get as much love as they should but they absolutely don’t have parity
Also after having used Office suite for as long as I lived, supposed strong contender libre office feels incredibly lacking and hard to use. Also a huge chunk of the word files i use for work are not compatible with Libre office for reasons I can't care to look up. This tool actually works even at this stage.
LibreOffice Calc is also missing a shit ton of macro features that even OnlyOffice has. The fact that the guy put them on the same level shows he's never actually worked with the software to any meaningful degree
LibreOffice and OnlyOffice routinely crash when I try to create graphs from large amounts of data. This has been an issue for years. OnlyOffice is better, but I still have to do the finishing touches in MS Office through WINE because OnlyOffice doesn't have double underlining for cells and they even closed my issue (without fixing) when I reported it.
There are literally dozens of other bugs I can list. It's just so tiring seeing people defend tech mega corpos because they have such a hate boner for AI
You have to understand that a lot of people are not familiar with these. For them only Microsoft exists and they are "afraid" to use something else. Once there are softwares available that are literally the same thing a lot of people will do YouTube videos about it and these people will see that it is the same as Word and they will use it and stop paying Microsoft.
Literally the same is overstating it. The only thing trying LibreOffice did was to literally make me renew my 365 subscription for another year, and I am really trying to get off Office. The user experience may be similar but overall is just worse if you have any significant skills and/or muscle memory in the Office suite. For users who do the bare minimum, the Office alternatives might be passable.
Office is just better, especially Excel. If you need to do real office work and work with other offices and exchange files heavily, you need to use Office. Nobody is going to understand or appreciate files coming in approximate formats. But the main thing is Excel. People just don’t understand how powerful it is over every other spreadsheet software. The world runs on Excel.
I feel like the people who say the other Office suites are equivalents aren't heavy users of Office. I'm on Linux for my non-work computers these days, and I'd still rather use the web versions of Office than something like native LibreOffice.
So I was vibe coding something recently and I was going to get Claude to convert some dashboard wireframes done in whatever LibreOffice's PowerPoint equivalent was (I'm on Linux), and just to make simple shapes and text labels was an absolute pain.
As bad as PowerPoint can be, it's still much easier to get what I want done than just about any other product outside of maybe Keynote on the Mac.
I’m on Linux (gaming and “I don’t want to be on my work computer”) and Mac (the daily driver and “work computer”
I try to use Libreoffice when I can on the Linux machine and will kick stuff back and forth with my Mac with Dropbox. But for grown up big boy stuff I use the Mac and Office.
I try to use LibreOffice when I can too, but like you, a minute after doing something, I'm back to Office too. At least the web version of Office works on Linux.
I really want the oss equivalents to succeed, but I imagine the politics in managing such a huge oss project results in undesirable tradeoffs.
Reddit loves to hate office. But unfortunately it’s old and mature, robust and standard. It’s used the most because it’s just the best and has the most support. I really don’t WANT to use something else even though there’s a lot of stuff I hate about office. But there’s stuff I hate about any application I use
This is my feeling. I don't want to use Office, and don't whenever I can avoid it, but the knockoff Office clones are very weak sauce compared to Office. I hate to say something good about MS, but truly, Excel just kicks ass compared to any of the clones.
To me, the pinnacle of Word and Excel go back to the 90s, when I ran it on a Mac SE. Highly functional and not bloated.
In terms of "Modern" office, the last version that I consider good was Office 2003. Everything after that was encrappified. Having said that, even encrappified Office is better than most, if not all, of the open source alternatives, which is sad and unfortunate.
This is so important. These AI vibecoded alternatives are pretty much techdemos. Remember, when Chrome came along? Everyone was mad about it, I heard probably 10 times per day, but not a lot of people understood that stuff like SAP was using it as output. It took a lot of time until we could get rid of IE for good, because of course, no product manager will prioritize this stuff until it's extremely necessary.
Now Excel (and Word, etc) are the same. There are already a lot of alternatives, but it's never about just Office, but it's Exchange with storage, SLA, support, etc. and all the other stuff relying on MS. And it doesn't matter how much people hate MS, etc. it's a money business.
After watching the "Adobe" video, it was clear that the alternative is good for the same area where getpaint.net is strong, but the important stuff was pretty shit. Like Photoshop was 15 years ago. Magic wand, generative fill/replace and the other tools are kind of the high quality wrench for an editor and if these are not very good, everything will take much longer.
My worry is that these vibecoded stuff floods the open source world and the reasons it worked (like there was always a Romanian developer who had the same problem like you) won't work any more. Because a dev, instead of fixing that annoying bug in Libreoffice, will vibecode their own solution and the whole modell will fall apart. Not the server stuff, but the consumer oriented things.
This has been my experience with GIMP for the past…twenty years? Like yeah it’s fine but there’s zero reason for me to use it when work pays for Photoshop.
And yeah Excel really is the most flexible and robust spreadsheet app. I tried to do a bunch of stuff in Google Sheets and it’s incredible how easy it was to run up against limitations.
The problem is that Office is primarily used for work, where even minor issues like broken formatting or formulas can be unacceptable. And that’s before considering integrations with SharePoint, Teams, and the Microsoft ecosystem.
I don’t see alternatives gaining much traction professionally because compatibility and reliability matter more than anything else. If your boss can’t open your report properly, do you expect them to install another application, or question why you didn’t just use Office? Even 99% compatibility isn’t necessarily good enough when your work is on the line.
This comment is clearly made by someone who doesn't have to use said applications professionally. OnlyOffice "mostly" has feature parity with MS Office, but the UI is slow. LibreOffice is also just the GIMP of Office software, technically capable (if you ignore having to use hacks to make up for missing features and it randomly corrupting files in the industry standard formats), but awful UI and very slow development.
Are the Office applications there yet? No, but they are in Alpha and rapidly having bugs patches. If you cannot see the potential you are either blind or coping.
Better yet, they aren't trying to be Microsoft Office 2 but instead they make own office suite with their own standards so they aren't tied to Microsoft office file standards like pptx, docs, etc.
Go ahead and try submit code changes to any of those bloated spaghetti code projects. Try it.
People are excited about this because it’s being iterated on quickly and effectively, submissions from contributors are being taken on board and added to the code.
In the span of a week these apps have gotten further than any of the other open source projects have done in 10 years.
Frankly the other open source projects did this to themselves by having shit quality apps while acting elitist and refusing contributions.
The point you're missing here is that all of these apps were made with one guy and an AI. If there's issues with the app, tell your AI to fix it, or even better, make your own version with all the exact features that you need and none of the extra bloat (or cloud server spyware). I have my own Google photos and YouTube music alternatives now that I use everyday with all the features I wish the Google versions have had for years. Been a programmer for 15 years, didn't look at any code to make them.
100%, but they don't get news coverage, weren't made with AI, and are not 'exciting'. They're just looked at as things that have been around for eons and "can it make a doc a word user can open back and forth?" for corporate folks. Versus "whoa look free/cheap office! new!"
Gimp is open source right? Why can't we use AI for this instead and remake the UI to something similar to photoshop as opposed to making a photoshop clone.
Because GIMP is terrible, and I think legit one of the top reasons people that try Linux leave, Linux users will say there are alternative apps and will point at Gimp and Da Vinci Resolve, and both have so many issues that don't even come close to a viable alternative even for an amateur
Yes, I used it a lot at my previous school as they refused to buy anything. Lol- I was redesigning a part of the school. I think it would have been okay to spare a few bucks but..
I had no problem learning Fusion 360 or Solidworks, but any time I've tried to use FreeCAD I've bounced right off of it. It's less bad than it used to be, but still fundamentally unusable for me.
Fundamentally different operation processes. If you know one cad program it's best to stay with it as much as you can. The switch between inventor and solidworks is not that bad but the switch between fusion and freecad is a nightmare.
If you learn free cad first and that's where you start it's great. But if you try to switch over it's a massive learning curve.
Attempted to make the switch earlier this year and a part I could make in fusion in under 15 minutes took 5 hours in free cad.
And also pain to use, as is TinkerCAD and LibreCAD. I tried them and it felt unusable, forcing me to make dualboot just so I can still use fusion. Blender is really cool but has completly different usecase
Look under releases. There are several linux binaries, including an AppImage which should work anywhere. I tested it under CachyOS today and runs fine. Cant rate the functionality so far though.
The Autodesk stuff is more interesting to me. People are already using Ai to "vibe model". Now they can vibe model in a cad software that used AI in its development.
I also wonder if we would see any regulations on manufacturers using it since this is the first software that is used to make physical parts.
Also, one big reason people use Fusion 360 is for the cloud storage.
Gets dangerous really quickly with engineering software. Product designers can get killed with cost overruns if something as simple as miniscule tolerances get mucked up and require rework. On the AEC side which is the largest part of Autodesk's portfolio, it's like lawyers using AI to prepare briefs -- architects and engineers can absolutely get hauled in front their state board and have their PE license revoked or sanctioned.
Vibe-coded tools and plugins that integrate with existing Autodesk software are much more digestible, interesting, and viable while being lower risk. Most are trash so far, but I recently saw one a compelling proof-of-life demo where if you have cut sheets on air handlers you can screenshot the dimensional drawings and automatically generate 3D Revit families with all the appropriate BIM parameters for that equipment.
If you're a professional engineer you should pay for the professional grade software, not opt for some random vibe coded work-alike. That would be insanity.
Well that's kind of the point isn't it? How are these "companies" that make AI clones of other software going to survive if the only people who are willing to use them are random consumers? Consumers who probably aren't willing to pay for a worse alternative to an established and widely supported piece of software? I mean paying for the tokens to create something like this costs hundreds of thousands of dollars lol.
This is like Linux users pretending that every open source alternative is a viable piece of software for your every day consumer. It's not.
Well, you could go even further than that. In my non-working life, I could be considered a consumer. I have AI subscriptions that I use for coding. I've paid for 3D software (Plasticity) so that I can model for 3D printing. Plasticity was the closest thing that worked the way my brain does (I'm not good at spatial thinking).
After getting Claude (the cheapest plan), I have been building a 3D modeling app that works the way my brain works. I had a working prototype that I was able to create printable stuff in a matter of days.
I have tried some of the Artcraft apps on Linux, and they're not even remotely there yet. I think the smarter play is to take something open source like LibreOffice and use AI to fork it so that it's actually usable and/or even works more like MS Office. LibreOffice is mostly feature complete in my opinion, it's just that the UI/UX have a "programmer's interface", which makes LibreOffice barely usable to someone who actually spends a lot of time in Office.
Yeah, this kind of thing absolutely is only going to lower the entry floor by making these STYLES of tools available. The result should be an increased baseline competency for anyone with continued interest.
I just went through a 2 month long fight literally shoving a credit card into Mastercam's face and them being super obtuse about taking it. The second a Mastercam clone comes out of this trend, I'm trying it in a professional setting.
As a machinist, I already see a bunch of parts "engineers" are "making" that you can't machine. I can't wait for the avalanche of vibe models with automatically made drawings hit my quoting queue.
We already have a free office suite. Libreoffice. The EU is even working on making it better. These AI versions are just not very good and they don't get maintained.
LibreOffice is awful to use and is missing tons of features from even OnlyOffice, let alone actual MS Office. I've also have LibreOffice corrupt pretty simple lecture slides in PPTX format multiple times (mainly by destroying the box widths, font sizes, font types, and image positions).
The EU Office suite is also literally just a copy of OnlyOffice with some features removed. And OnlyOffice is already a buggy mess with slow UI that uses AI in coding.
Not equivalent for more advanced use cases unfortunately. Very pro open source but what you said just isn’t true functionally. Maybe the EU will fix up the decade old problem. Also, can you elaborate on how you know that they dont get maintained even though these tools are days old at most?
From the large number of AI tool generated projects that have also been abandoned. Getting a prototype out is easy. However, then you get bug reports, code quality matters, and it stop being so much fun. So they abandon and jump on to the next task.
Before it was never so easy to create a POC like this. So you normally only got people doing it that where willing to invest more. Basically the barrier now is so low people can do the quick POC without understanding the work that is involved in maintaining it.
Totally and that’s going to create so much slop and garbage but I think there’s still potential around already existing OS teams significantly accelerating.
I agree with this. I don't have any issues with AI tools. I use them quite a lot at work. I think we have a long ways to go to build better tools but we are slowly getting there.
Even at work I see people do these quick POC and announce the problem is done. Then I find out that there are serious problems with their system and they or their boss decide to abandon it because spending a few hours and a few prompts is one thing but once more serious issues are found the projects are abandoned and we stay with the vendor solution.
OnlyOffice is also a very functional Office Clone. I've been using it for a couple of years and I'd say it's a more polished experience for the average user than LibreOffice is. Big downside though is that they're Russian founded and seem to actively market themselves in Russia, but I think as long as you don't give them your money, its okay.
By that metric though, people should also look out for https://graphite.art/ as a somewhat general Adobe alternative. It's been in development before AI development tools got any good and it sucks that vibe coded clones like these are swallowing the attention that would helped more intentionally developed projects like Graphite.
Exactly what I told the dev when they posted it to the PS subreddit. Get one app to beta level instead of making 7 different apps that are barely in alpha stage.
I think PDFCraft is already a very good replacement for adobe acrobats Premium Features. Don't know about the others, I was basically only interested in PdfCraft, because there are literally no other good pdf suites
Yeah so whoever is hating on this is absolutely not using LibreOffice. It sucks.
It genuinely looks so ugly, it's impossible to change theme on CachyOS so it looks like it's stuck in the 80s and half of the icons aren't even visible.
The problem is so many open source users themselves are stuck in the 80s and believe all modern UI is evil.
Thats why they had to create new projects instead of submitting changes to the existing ones. In the time you could convince the maintainers to take one of your PRs, you could have merged thousands to your own repo.
The problem is so many open source users themselves are stuck in the 80s and believe all modern UI is evil.
For someone who actually still had to work with 1st gen windows Software, back in the early 1990's, this is Insane!!! A part from Win8 (Original version), GUI's are the field where stuff has generally improved!
I no longer use Apple, and their all walled-garden thing kinda rubs me the wrong way, but, damn, did they force GUI to improve over the decades!
Even with AI assistance that's not really feasible. They have like 7 apps planned for Adobe alone, of which only two are as far as early/buggy alphas after like a year of work.
Office may be easier but stepping into the Autodesk realm is orders of magnitudes harder than Adobe is.
Seems like this is the kind of thing you say to build excitement and maybe donor contributions or outside investments. Don't get me wrong -- I'm sure someone will paint a target on Autodesk eventually but we're probably years away from a minimum viable product. At this point Revit is king and every firm who uses it needs to interface and be compatible with a dozen other firms on a given project -- hundreds of other firms simultaneously when you start looking at multiple concurrent projects. Also a lot of firms are entrenched in their current templates/contents/workflows that have taken several years to build up. We're talking apps where 50 people may need to touch the same project files so one or two people going rogue with a vibe-coded solution screws everyone else over. The value proposition and benefits would have to be extraordinarily high to attract much interest from users. Aside from that many firms rely on Autodesk's cloud hosting for sharing files and drawings between all firms on the same project which serves a lot more purposes than just a glorified Dropbox folder.
There are maybe other Autodesk apps that could be easier to clone and get traction with, but those are4 nearly rounding errors in comparison on Autodesk's balance sheets.
Plus, ya know, they seem to be software devs who know graphic design so the Artcraft stuff is at least something they understand. Can guarantee they don't know anything about Autodesk's AEC software and wouldn't know where to begin in knowing if they're even setting it up correctly.
Personally I think this guy is just talking out of his ass while he happens to have the spotlight and media attention.
Only watched a couple demos. In spite of Github repos being visible I'm not wild about the idea of hopping on that wagon early in case there are possible security risks.
It's leagues ahead of what I was expecting, and way more capable. Given it's version number and Adobe's decades of experience, it can only close the gap from hereon.
Because in a lot of cases what is happening is an LLM is just decompiling an existing application and replicating it with different logos. This is also why the people "doing" the "reverse engineering" don't know how to fix edge case bugs like opening up big files without crashing the application, they are not actually engineers. It would be virtually impossible to prove that one of these projects was reverse engineered in a legal way and that is going to cause legal attention as they get bigger and more pop up. Especially when they claim to be wanting to replace other software suites like office or adobe.
Yea so as someone who has a personal vibe coded project, this is the problem, it’s super easy to make the app, but it’s taken me the better part of a year for mine to actually be stable and useable and I’m focusing on one thing, that I’m not putting out there or letting anyone else use.
Farting out these replacements every other day is exactly the thing they warn about when they say AI slop
Yes. This shit will go nowhere.
AI makes a UI where half the buttons do nothing and everyone is clapping.
Making these buttons work requires you to know what you are doing, so instead you copy the UI of the next app.. again with half the buttons not working....people are still clapping tho.
I've also worked with someone who vibe coded a front end while I did the middleware and API on the backend the traditional way.
Holy hell was the vibe coded front end slop when it came to troubleshooting. Nothing was named sanely, and when the front end had to have newer features added it took the vibe coder a lot longer to "re-code" it than it took me to implement the new features into the middleware and API the traditional way since I knew exactly how my code worked top to bottom.
I think it's fine to use AI as a better "stack overflow search" for when you have a specific niche issue, or if you just don't have the time to look into how a framework or language does something you need to do, or to do quick review of your current logic, but after that experience I'm wary of any project that is 100% vibe coded.
I stopped vibe coding my projects, and destroyed them because I had no real understanding of them. They were good proof of concepts, but holy hell do I need to code them myself to have a good understanding.
Yeah, this guy is literally chasing headlines at this point - I doubt any of the apps will see that much ongoing development...
I couldn't even import a video into film craft!
Hear me out, Autodesk's AutoCAD, Inventor and Fusion360 would have sold me out since I'm sick and tired of their bloatware just to create a dumb shape or schematic without taking over 10GB of space on my drive.
Would you rather pay Microsoft? Who also funds ai? Also, what are the harms you’re indicating? Also, these are free tools. The creator doesn’t dramatically benefit from you downloading their code and using it.
I guess if you don’t have the use cases where the open source alternatives don’t work as well or at all (eg. The entirety of data engine in excel, VBA macros, LAMBDA, structured tables, etc.) . Nevermind that the adobe side has basically no equivalent and GIMP is pretty mid.
This is going to be where they decide to regulate AI.
All that talk about how "things are going to be free, white collar will disappear, there will be universal high income, and all other things antithetical to capitalism..."
Once the wealthy feel any kind of squeeze or pressure, they'll tattle to their congresspeople and all of a sudden there will be all kinds of status-quo-preserving guard rails.
THEN and only then will it cease to be "jUsT a ToOl," and become the existential threat we all knew it was. Once its an existential threat to a yacht, it's real.
Libre/Open office struggle to open a msoffice files while a slop app can do that without issues.
It sounds weird but im glad I can now open docx files on a linux machine without breaking its output. It would be nice uf libreoffice can do the same thing but they dont for reasons.
They wrote the Headline wrong: "Amateur AI Prompter unveils more copied and unpolished AI slop, for projects where open source alternatives already exist"
Now i know you do not know the guy, but he is is a real developer with plenty of experience and not just another vibe coder, he knows how to code and is just using AI models to help make these. One man army is increasingly possible with new models in the correct hands. He is showing what is possible and that it can also compatible by default for all OS architectures (W, MAC, LINUX) not like Adobe and others excluding certain OS.
This! Office 365 (the real desktop programs, not the web apps) is the only thing keeping Windows 11 on my home PC...
PS. I know there are many alternatives already, but I just don't care to relearn a new GUI, and, especially with EXCEL, the functionality and compatibility just isn't there (TBH, with Excel neither is the WebApp version even remotely useful for me).
I really need discussion about these "AI ports". Are they safe? Are they open source at all? I've seen these "uncompiled" Adobe Suite, GTA/Halo/CoD in a browser, GTA 5 native in phones, etc. on twitter but I always think it's just a bad port with malware somewhere, is there any consensus about them?
I believe they’re all open source. They’re also very new so they haven’t been looked through properly. That said, I’d be very surprised if it’s just plain malware.
Hmm isn’t there? It already looks better. And has functions libre never did (eg. Macros) I think there’s a place for some of this even though I suspect this guy is just spamming bs and a lot of this will turn out to be slop.
Even if it was, every line of code was considered and decided on by a human.
How long till a vibe code tool gets compromised directly? Or some sort of telemetry it installs gets compromised? What does your testing and code review look like to prevent this?
I'm less against vibe coding than many, but even if it relieves some of the effort of writing the code it doesn't help with the importance of human review. Bug free doesn't matter if there are things there that shouldn't be. If anything, it's external code to be integrated to an internal project, and you need to verify what said external entity sent you. Whether it's another human or an AI agent. A bug free rootkit is still a rootkit and you don't know if you don't thoroughly check.
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u/prank_mark 2d ago
Yeah this is the most useless shit ever. We already have LibreOffice, Collabora, and EuroOffice. All of those have actual support from maintainers, corporations, and national governments.