jenniferhooley

Really? I got the 0.7.0 version today and loaded a couple of my projects and tried using it in my normal day-to-day workflow.

1. Can't use brushes because they are slow and render jaggy polygons instead of the beautiful perfectly smooth brushes of Photoshop - literally can't draw a hand-print looking sketch circle as it looks like a weird digital polygon.

2. I use masks for texturing vector layers, literally cannot ctrl+click to select anything in my file because the texture clipped inside of the layer blocks lower layer selection even though it's completley clipped out of view. Makes it impossible to work on my files without going over to the layers and scrolling hundreds of layers and expanding folders to try to find it. This means I can't use it at all.

3. Try to do dumb little things like turn on one of my color modifying layers and it takes 2 seconds to sit there and wait until it activates instead of a few milliseconds like photoshop.

4. Can't activate my fx layer even though it shows that it IS activated and then others show not activated or something... something completely wrong about this, not even sure what.

5. tried to adjust one of my vector layers couldn't hold alt+hover to adjust the point handles.

6. Trying to type text, takes like 1second per character just to type (photoshop is instant).

7. Can't drag UI sections like Navigator/etc. over to the other panels and can't collapse/uncollapse panels.

8. Can't fill/edit the vector path drawing tool at all I don't think, maybe the UI is just weird but definitely a UX issue or just unusable? Not sure...

I'm not going to bother trying more things, but literally every single thing I tested had a bug or is janky to where it's unusable in a professional context.

I do see 100s of people are working on it now with 10s of thousands of stars on github and it does seem a hair better than my first test, so I'll keep watching the progress, but so far it's just too buggy/glitchy/missing features to work with for me (I have a pretty decent Windows pc - nvida rtx 4080 card, 128gb ram, etc).

I loaded my smallest professional project today with fairly simple shapes and text and a minimal number of large smart objects with few effects (essentially 1 page of an educational web system design).

It's not as bad as a few days ago, however it's extremely slow and lots of little bugs to the point I would never use it professionally. Weird things too, like my entire mouse pointer is slow, drawing with a brush is slow and jaggy, editing a vector and the points don't highlight properly or ending the edit and suddenly it randomly moved somewhere on the screen. Just very clunky, bad feeling and not really usable compared to photoshop.

I'll keep an eye on it out of curiosity, but right now it's unusable in a professional context.

Yeah agreed, I was talking to a friend few years ago when Google first wiped out blogging by taking over the blog content and showing snippets instead of real links.

Obviously the end-game is for the companies to automate all the text, games, and software so you just go to their feed and pay them a monthly instead of individuals making making this content.

No, this is exactly what Claude vibe codes, this is definitely a one-shot Claude style game (assuming it looks up a decent pixel art pack). LLMs are pretty decent these days at making standard game clones like this, you just have to add a system prompt about making it look like a real indie-style pixel art game instead of just letting it make it's standard "web game" style. I assume google has a good background system prompt/harness to do this automatically.

Have you tried the apps, or have any experience with Photoshop (complex photo or art or video projects)?

Just curious, because I've worked within design/film etc. for years.

I did open the PhotoCraft and loaded a few of my simpler layout projects. And literally nothing works.

Let's see:

1. Tried to select text, like the selector is off from the cursor.

2. Tried to edit text, takes like 3 seconds to drag the slider for size, nothing happens (text doesn't change size).

3. Absolutely everything is insanely laggy: selecting, switching, etc.

4. Can't seem to expand/collapse folders.

5. Everything shows shortcut keys - shortcut keys don't do anything.

6. Tried to move something, it kind of got frozen for a while. Eventually disappeared I think?

7. Clicked something and it auto selected a side panel (don't know why), hid the other panel, can't stretch, collapse the panels or get it back...

This is actual joke software, I'm confused why you are impressed?

Maybe not... I personally wouldn't use a service that would boot me off if they did find out because I spoke about it online or committed too much code one week or something.

As much as I hate vibe-coded "slop". I feel like this is idiotic. I and most good engs with decades of experience do use AI now to type nearly all the actual "code", but we read EVERY SINGLE line, always fix and rework every feature before a commit to make it clean, optimized, and de-slopified.

But still, we wouldn't be allowed to use codeberg because "generative ai" was used significantly for most lines of code?

lmao. Yep. I guess they all took a sabbatical and decided F** it, lobotomize me, I'm all in.

No they don't know the domain at all. I think one of the startups brings in around $10K a month now. They know nothing about the domain only that it brings in money (i.e. they run thousands of startup "tests" and this one seemed to be easiest to make money from), and even less about code (have no idea what a variable is).

I just think devs are coping by thinking that saas startups have any barrier to entry at all. You are now competing with every single person on the planet who wants to make money sitting at home on a computer, and likely the business guy with zero skill or craftsmanship is going to beat you. The only thing with barrier to entry is insanely complex software (e.g., what used to take a genius team of 10 multiple years to make) and or more creative software like video games (where you need extreme care and taste to get something anyone will look at for > 2 hours).

Average saas products require no skill or craftsmanship and literally anyone including our grandmas can make it (assuming they will take a few months at least to chat with an LLM). To be clear I think this is great! More better software, people with smaller needs can have llms build it for them totally bespoke. For those of us with skills we have to move WAY out of our old comfort zone and make way cooler things, a standard saas that takes a few months isn't something we should waste our time on anymore.

Not really true tbh. Plenty of 50 year old business guys with less than zero technical ability making saas startups over months of focused chats with LLMs. Of course they're slower at making stuff and the projects are worse than a smart engineer, but they can definitely ship and run to thousands of real customers.

Do you really think there aren't data annotator services specifically training for SVG drawing? And that those annotators don't have a rich set of frequently requested icons/graphics/etc. that they review and train on?

I'd be shocked if they didn't myself.

Do you think young children should never be in a car either? There is always a chance of death, and at some point you have to let your kids enjoy life, some of my best memories are at that pond watching dragonflies and listening to the water splash. It just seems so sad to not allow a child to be free to enjoy the natural world, yes a very scary speech about the dangers is important, but at some point it's important to let children learn on their own I think... I don't know... I'm just really glad I had the freedom and always remember my childhood alone in the woods and at the farm with deep happiness that I never felt locked up in a house or classroom despite those being super safe.

GLM 5.3 (usually flash) + OpenCode.

Myself and my siblings all lived on a fairly large rural farm with 2 large bodies of water that we always hung around unsupervised from about 4 y/o onwards. We loved catching bullfrogs and watching the fishes and stuff. Our mom gave us very strict/scary warnings about never going in and being careful, but other than that we were pretty free thankfully. 5 y/o with a good warning seems totally fine.