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Even if it works despite being AI slop that's been developed in a mere 4 days (?) and somehow has all these contributors, I'm not sure I agree with the idea.

It's cool that they went with Rust for it, but I would have much preferred if all that effort went towards improving GIMP and existing open formats.

If it works then I guess it's the same end result at the end of the day, but it would suck if GIMP doesn't end up being the one to put a nail on Photoshop's coffin after all these years of serious development by humans.

Edit: I already see the kneejerk dislikes coming, I'm just interested in starting a conversation about the idea of it, I also dislike the fact that it's AI slop as I already implied. I'd appreciate joining the conversation instead of dislike bombing with no argument.

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[-] Sina@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Most of these are very modular, so should be very easy to maintain. I guess we'll just have to see.

Software that was forever, “almost working properly.”

That describes how I feel about MS Word quite well.

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

If I had a dollar for every time I've encountered things in IT that "should be easy to XYZ..." That actually were a nightmare to deal with, I'd damn near be retired already.

And you're 100% correct about Microsoft products. I'll give you 1 guess what company was bragging loudly earlier this year about how much AI-generated code their software engineers are using.

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