Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office
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Developer Brandon Thomas leverages Anthropic’s Claude AI to release free, open‑source clones of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, demonstrating that reproducing complex office software now costs almost nothing.
Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They're rough, but they show how cheap cloning software has become.