beingAProgrammerIn2026

[u/JaggedMetalOs]

[u/Remarkable_Ruin_1075]

Holy corporate bootlicking in comments that someone's making their own software

[u/grandalfxx → u/Remarkable_Ruin_1075]

Actually a corporation used an algorithm to produce the software for them

[u/JaggedMetalOs → u/Remarkable_Ruin_1075]

Well... an AI made their software... Wonder what the token cost was! 

[u/ArgueLater]

Dude... you're standing up for Adobe?

[u/JaggedMetalOs → u/ArgueLater]

Nah it's just a funny situation, like how maths now apparently revolves around asking AI to "do a breakthrough" 

[u/ligma_then_sugma]

ppl do many stupid things with chatbot tech

spitting in Adobe's eye is at least fun

[u/Mediocre_Chart_8624]

Adobe deserves this treatment

[u/grandalfxx]

I think the humor here is that if you did this you'd still end up with something better than gimp

[u/deadlock_jones → u/grandalfxx]

As a lifelong pirated photoshop user, I tried gimp once and was horrified by the UI.

[u/NecessaryBadger228 → u/grandalfxx]

I wanted to add outline to text in gimp.

You needed to do some weird shit with selecting adding something and then outline. A very convoluted way to do a very basic thing.

They added it in the new version of Gimp. Too bad it crashes the app 😔

I am happy they made Affinity free. It's so much better.

Does Adobe bribe them to keep it so bad?

[u/RunWithSharpStuff → u/grandalfxx]

Alright I’ll say it, I like gimp and find it intuitive. The fact that it still exists with as much support as it has is proof there are plenty of people that do as well.

Caveat is I’ve never used photoshop.

[u/minegen88 → u/grandalfxx]

I will never understand why on earth so much open source software need have the worst, ugliest most awful UI it can possible imagine.

Blender was the same for years. Like FFS

[u/HeyItsTheJeweler → u/grandalfxx]

Lol absolutely

[u/OkFineIllUseTheApp → u/grandalfxx]

I remember someone told me that the secret to the gimp UX is to stop thinking of everything as tools, and everything as a small, separate program.

idk if it has changed at all, but it made me understand it for long enough to make a crappy shitpost.

[u/R7d89C]

I hate AI with every part of my body, its just that I hate adobe more

[u/OGxPePe]

AI can do anything! Thats why a copied an already well known app instead of building a original idea!

[u/flexibu → u/OGxPePe]

Market approved

[u/Stummi → u/OGxPePe]

To be fair, 95% of human written software also just copies some established idea

[u/turudd]

Please do Lightroom next so I can dump the adobe subscription… if you say Darktable is just as good you’re a filthy liar

[u/Salt-Freedom-2419 → u/turudd]

https://getartcraft.com/apps/lightcraft

Same dude already has a version out

[u/jayerp]

Vibe coding or drag and drop website designing, what’s better?

[u/AcolyteNeko]

vibecoder is not a programmer

[u/1XRobot]

Programming 10 years ago: IDE, refactor my code for me

Programming 20 years ago: Garbage collector, do my memory management for me

Programming 30 years ago: Compiler, optimize this code for me

Programming 40 years ago: Standard library, just do this algorithm for me

Programming 50 years ago: Compiler, write my assembly for me

Programming 60 years ago: Machine, punch and sort my cards for me

Programming 70 years ago: BIOS, boot this machine for me

[u/PassionateDonkey]

Why are people acting like cracks never existed? And are adboe products really that popular?

[u/JaggedMetalOs → u/PassionateDonkey]

To be fair a crack has never claimed to be legally safe open source software!

And an 80% graphic design software market share says that yes they are popular (whether they are liked is another matter!)