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Michal Malewicz

Michal Malewicz⁠

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AI BUBBLE WEEKLY 8

Adobe, Claude and the end of Software

Software is becoming a dead end for businesses.

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Adobe, Anthropic and the end of software showing a chart of decreasing valuations (estimated)

Someone just vibe coded the entire Adobe Suite. Photoshop, Lightroom, even an After Effects replacement. And they made the apps free (or $70 one-time payment, that’s unclear).

For millions of people that only use Photoshop sporadically and for basic stuff, that’s life-changing. Adobe Stock reacted immediately.

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Adobe stock price drop when Craft was announced

On the other hand, Claude just introduced Dashboards. A custom UI that generates for you on the fly from various data sources.

Both of these things are closely connected.

What ties them together is how they announce the end of software as we know it. And no, we’re not clickbaity-dramatic here. Not ALL software will end. There will be apps. Just less apps. Less revenue.

Maybe it’s better to learn how to do flooring or plumbing.

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The end of dashboards and design systems 2025 article
I wrote this a year ago and there was backlash and statements that it won’t happen. Well here we are…

The end of dashboards

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I have a 10 year old laptop running Linux and ONLY a writing app on it. No LLM's, no AI's. Just my thoughts on the industry, without filter.

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