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

A few years ago, “developer” sounded safer than almost any tech title. Then the market changed. Companies cut teams, slowed hiring, and started asking one brutal question before approving roles: Can this person reduce production risk and help us ship faster? That question has been very good for SDETs, QA automation engineers, reliability-minded testers, and engineers who can build serious TypeScript test pipelines. The old split was simple. Developers wrote code. QA tested it