Funny. I’m thinking some people made a lot of money.

On the other hand, I think Lemmy folks would be pleased, that an ai company didn’t harm the environment 😀

Yeah but nobody buys it at full price. You can get it for 35 by just asking. Thats most likely not the highest subscription of the person using their apps.

And I don’t want to defend them at all. Finally I don’t need them anymore after almost 20 years. Stoked about it.

That works. I think I could probably get away with using Inkscape instead of illustrator, but it would be a struggle, because with it I can’t copy paste vectors to other apps. InDesign is completely alone in it’s category.

Adobe is the standard everyone uses. You can’t be a pro and collaborate without it.

It’s like 35€ per month. There are so many subscriptions out there now. Everything is a subscription. 35€ isn’t even that much anymore, considering all the apps you get.

Exactly, you are not their target user.

Many people, including myself until recently, would also do a lot to rid themselves of adobe, but for us it just isn’t possible.

On the other hand, their subscription isn’t that high, compared to so many other subscriptions.

You would be wrong. There is nothing close to Photoshop and many others. Sadly that is the case.

Extremely interesting. Some technical challenges remain, but so many applications if solved.

Great thread, thanks everyone

Honestly, affinity is just a company. They will make a Linux version if it makes business sense for them and it won’t. Adobe is far ahead in almost every way. Their software is competing in the market of amateurs. And for an amateur, it should make more sense to pick up Gimp, inkspace. Affinity publisher is ok, but pros will have adobe and for anything less inkspace or figma free tier is good enough. Affinity has no market.

You hate ai or not, maybe you just found one more excuse to be an asshole online, don’t know, don’t care, bye.

You are insulting a person, because they said ai helps them.

Your comment is on capitalism, not scaling ai or ai being used with effect.

I don’t think any designer does work without heavily relying on ai. I bet that’s not the only profession.

Thing is, same as with GHz, you have to do it as much as you can until the gains get too small. You do that, then you move on to the next optimization. Like ai has and is now optimizing test time compute, token quality, and other areas.

Worst case scenario, I don’t think money spent on supercomputers is the worst way to spend money. That in itself has brought chip design and development forward. Not to mention ai is already invaluable with a lot of science research. Invaluable!

Don’t be an ass and realize that ai is a great tool for a lot of people. Why is that so hard to comprehend?

I don’t get it, it’s pretty lame. Just a list of articles. This would need some kind of flow. Maybe one that is continued depending on what topic one reads. Something. I think, I’ll try to make this …

Too many nukes

You got to make a show for the king.

I don’t know about overestimating… Check this out: https://lovable.dev/

And it’s not about how this can’t completely replace developers. Maybe not today, but this product will just get better and better and better. This thing never sleeps and it costs way less than a developer. I think there are uncertain years ahead. Right now, I think that if I was at a point of my life to choose my career, I’d choose something that can’t be done remotely on the computer.

I’m trying to figure out where this is all going myself. Maybe farming or carpentry?