Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.
I’m not getting over it.
You’re just going to have to accept that fact and get over it.
Have fun dying mad about it. The rest of us will be over here doing stuff anyway, while you seethe.
The tech isn’t going anywhere. It already runs on your phone - like, on your phone. No one could stop you. The part that does the scary thing is small and fast and will only get stronger. Most people are going to use it for utterly unremarkable tasks, or the sort of above-board goals they never found time for.
Insisting they’re not in any way responsible for what they make, or that it is utterly disqualfied from being creative, personal, distinct, or expressive… that’s only gonna go over well with like-minded curmudgeons. Grumble away, I guess.