I like this mindset but damn that's a lot of tokens? At what cost? And then to continue to maintain and .. idk.. I suppose it'll work? If the motivation is strong enough and momentum is sustained?
I'm sick of Gimp, Krita, and Inkscape being the best Linux and open source have to offer.
I think you can do this project of yours without being dismissive of the work (and the merits of the work) done by real people over years.
Be careful of what you might damage by doing this.
Specially when the LLMs he is using to make this software were 100% trained and likely heavily influenced by the software he is shitting on.
"Shitting on the shoulder of giants"
Affinity works both similarly and differently and is now pretty popular.
It’s different but really not inferior to Photoshop, for example (better live filters, cross model curves, better layer blending), and it’s not inferior to InDesign or Illustrator, mostly. It does have a file format that allows all three to coexist (in fact it effectively always did).
They all have sufficient familiarity (the basics of the tools and layers are now pretty much a standard “medium” that most photo/painting apps implement, after all) but they have their own advantages. The integration between the three apps is way ahead.
I just don’t see why anyone would make open source apps that don’t move things forward (Krita and Inkscape do, in their own ways).
It’s also a pretty hollow demonstration of AI, ultimately, to use it to just clone ripoffs, but it does have a sort of fractal self-similarity I suppose.
I don’t think anyone is served well by pursuing blatant cloning in open source. But if this is the shoddy destiny of AI coding then I am at peace with it. People can use lazy knockoffs if they want.
I've used nearly every open source creative tool that open source has to offer, and I've been deeply unsatisfied by what's available.
I've repeatedly tried to get into Krita over the years and it's just not my cup of tea. It's fine if it works for you, but I'm not happy with it.
I don't like Kdenlive either. Or much of anything from or built with KDE or Gnome.
Even though it's not Open Source, davinci resolve has been pretty good to me, even the free version, it's sick bro you should try it out! Even if you do feel like you'd rather make your own software suite, you should at the very try to take a few notes from davinci Fusion, your users will be thankful:
- having a node representation for compositions has some drawbacks but massive advantages when it comes to visualizing and organizing scenes - copying nodes/layers/effects and getting plaintext in your clipboard is EXTREMELY powerful and underused, it basically means that any text manipulation becomes potential automation. This is a super cool feature and even though I will not use your software, I think you should look into it!