随着人工智能发展迅速扩张，人们正在用免费应用复制付费的桌面和移动应用，这可能改变传统软件的未来。
As AI development rapidly expands, people are replicating paid-for desktop and mobile apps with free apps, potentially changing the future of legacy software.
上周，一位名叫布兰登·托马斯的Reddit用户分享了一个名为“ArtCraft”的项目——基本上是Adobe Creative Suite的免费重建版，该套件包含Photoshop和Adobe PDF等程序。这些重建的服务被命名为PhotoCraft和PdfCraft。
Last week, a Reddit user named Brandon Thomas shared a project called “ArtCraft” – essentially a free rebuild of the Adobe Creative Suite, which includes programmes such as Photoshop and Adobe PDF. The recreated services have been named PhotoCraft and PdfCraft.
该软件套件通常按年付费的话，个人每年需支付779.99美元；若按年合同付费，则每月需支付69.99美元。
This software package usually costs individuals $779.99 per year if paid upfront or $69.99 per month on an annual contract.
本周早些时候，ArtCraft还发布了Microsoft Office套件的副本。
Earlier this week, ArtCraft also released copies of the Microsoft Office suite.
与Adobe套件类似，ArtCraft宣布了WordCraft、DeckCraft和GridCraft，分别对应Microsoft Word、PowerPoint和Excel。虽然这些新套件背后的软件工程师位于美国，但这些程序可在全球使用。以下是我们所知道的：Reddit用户“u/ai_art_is_art”——即ArtCraft背后的人——被揭露为位于美国亚特兰大的软件工程师布兰登·托马斯。
As with the Adobe package, ArtCraft has announced WordCraft, DeckCraft, and GridCraft, taking on Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. While the software engineer behind the new packages is based in the United States, the programmes are available worldwide. Here’s what we know: Reddit user “u/ai_art_is_art”, the person behind ArtCraft, has been revealed as Atlanta, US-based software engineer Brandon Thomas.
托马斯表示，他使用了人工智能平台Anthropic的Claude Opus 5.5和Rust软件，能够逆向工程Adobe的创意套件。
Using AI platform Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 and Rust software, Thomas said he was able to reverse engineer Adobe’s creative suite.
他在Reddit上宣布该项目时说，这不是一个“昙花一现的闪光，很快就会消逝”。
Announcing his project on Reddit, Thomas said that this is not a “one-off flash in the pan that will die”.
“我不是随便写写代码的爱好者。我是一名拥有15年行业经验的老兵，曾编写过从每日处理数十亿美元交易量的六个九支付系统，到先进的机器人和光学自动化系统。我大约十年来一直广泛使用Rust，我知道如何构建和维护大规模的Rust项目，”他说。
“I’m not just some casual vibe coder. I’m a 15-year industry veteran who has written everything from six-nines payment rails that move billions of dollars of transaction volume a day to advanced robotics and optics automation. I’ve used Rust extensively for about a decade, and I know how to build and maintain large-scale Rust projects,” he said.
“六个九支付系统”指的是提供99.9999%运行可用性的在线支付基础设施，而Rust是一种编程语言。
“Six-nines payment rails” refers to online payment infrastructure which provides 99.9999 percent operational availability, while Rust is a programming language.
托马斯表示，他厌倦了被软件产品的取消费用所困扰，希望其他人也能免费使用这些软件。
Thomas said he had become fed up with being hit with cancellation fees on software products and wanted others to be able to access them for free.
他在社交媒体和新闻网站“黑客新闻”上写道：“我们将取代谷歌搜索，我们将打造自己的智能手机，我们将建设更好的基础设施。我们将移除所有广告，让整个科技世界去恩希化。”尽管托马斯否认自己“只是个氛围编程者”，但氛围编程至少在一定程度上正是他所做的事。
He wrote on the social media and news site, Hacker News: “We’ll replace Google Search, we’ll build our own smartphones, we’ll build better infra. We’ll remove all the ads and de-enshi**ify the entire tech world.”While Thomas denies he is “just some vibe coder”, vibe coding is at least partly what he has done.
氛围编程是软件开发领域的一个新术语，指的是通过提示让人工智能工具生成代码，而不是手动编写代码。这意味着没有编程技术知识的人可以向人工智能工具描述一个想法，并让它为他们创建出来。
Vibe coding is a new term in software development which refers to prompting AI tools to generate code rather than writing it manually. This means that people who do not have technical knowledge of programming can describe an idea to an AI tool and have it create it for them.
据IBM科技公司称，氛围编程是一种“向意图驱动型软件开发的转变，即人工智能系统根据自然语言指令生成代码来协助开发者”。
According to the IBM technology company, vibe coding is a “shift toward intent-driven software development, where AI systems assist developers by generating code from natural language instructions”.
这个词由计算机科学家、OpenAI联合创始人安德烈·卡帕西于2025年2月提出，他在X上写道，人工智能用户可以“完全沉浸在氛围中，拥抱指数级增长，甚至忘记代码的存在”。
The phrase was introduced by computer scientist and OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February 2025, who wrote on X that AI users could “fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists”.
随着人工智能的兴起以及新应用涌入苹果应用商店，氛围编程变得越来越普遍。
Vibe coding has become more common as AI has taken off and new apps have flooded Apple’s App Store.
据《纽约时报》报道，全球市场情报和数字分析平台Sensor Tower估计，今年上半年新应用数量翻了一番，达到约56万个。在复制已有软件而不侵犯知识产权方面，存在一个法律灰色地带。
The New York Times reported that Sensor Tower, a global market intelligence and digital analytics platform, estimates that new apps doubled in the first half of this year to about 560,000. There is a legal grey area around replicating software which has already been established without infringing on intellectual property.
在Reddit上，托马斯将他那些类似Adobe的应用描述为“洁净室”替代品，意思是它们是根据公开可得的文件格式规范从零开始构建的，而不是基于Adobe的专有源代码。
On Reddit, Thomas described his Adobe-similar apps as “clean-room” replacements, meaning that they were built from scratch from publicly available file-format specifications, rather than from Adobe’s proprietary source code.
然而，据萨塞克斯大学知识产权法高级讲师安德烈斯·瓜达穆兹教授撰写的博客Technollama称，关于Claude编写了多少代码、托马斯编写了多少代码，目前仍鲜有信息。
However, there is still little information about how much of the code Claude wrote and how much Thomas wrote, according to Technollama, a blog written by Professor Andres Guadamuz, a reader in intellectual property law at the University of Sussex.
他说：“我们也不知道所声称的‘洁净室流程’能否经得起推敲。”有可能。
“We also do not know whether the claimed ‘clean-room process’ stands up to scrutiny,” he said. Possibly.
传统软件的衰落不太可能让Adobe Creative Cloud或微软等公司的应用完全过时，但如果存在可免费使用的替代品，这可能会让它们的利润大幅下降。
The downfall of legacy software is unlikely to make apps like Adobe Creative Cloud or Microsoft completely obsolete, but it could make them far less profitable if there are free-to-use substitutes available.