A solo developer building open-source versions of Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint would’ve sounded absurd a few years ago. Now it sounds early. That’s the point behind the viral story of Brandon Thomas and ArtCraft, an open-source project described in the video as a one-person effort powered by Claude AI and Rust. The apps aren’t polished replacements for Adobe Creative Cloud or Microsoft Office. They’re early alpha software. Some parts will be i