[orochi235]

I'm two weeks into a vibecoded Illustrator, actually (https://orochi235.github.io/weasel/swillustrator). It's built on top of a more generic WebGL presentation layer for canvas-based apps in general and Illustrator seemed like a fun test case. That said, I would think anybody who actually tried to use it for real work was an idiot. There are decades of convention and tweaks and learned lessons built into an app like Illustrator. It's kind of shocking how well Claude knows its intricacies, but even then, replicating them all would take a very long time. Also it's incredibly busted and full of bugs and I'm out of GitHub CI minutes for the month. :(

That said, it's been a whole lot of fun to build, and the real wins are in the tangents it lets me go off on. I spent a whole day building a "badge lab" and just adding random features and sliders. I had a sunset motif in the background of a garden planner I was sketching out, and it led to this, which took a day or two: https://orochi235.github.io/experiments/interstellar-horizon....

I think people are overestimating the danger AI poses to their livelihood, and underestimating how damn fun it is to use.