Reading up on Adobe
10 deep · digging since jan 27
- Ray 3.2 AI Video Generator - Create Controlled Videos Online
Ray 3.2 lets users generate or edit videos via text, images, or existing footage, offering up to 16 keyframes, native 1080p HDR, 16‑bit EXR output, and API access.
- An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
The author details their frustrating experience with Photoshop’s bloat and subscription model, explaining why they are finally abandoning it for lighter, more affordable alternatives.
- An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Figma CEO Dylan Field argues that AI is a tailwind for the company, countering market narratives, and discusses Figma's collaborative design platform and future with AI.
- Companies Aren’t Ripping Out Business Software for AI. Here’s What They’re Doing Instead. - WSJ
Large corporations are not replacing core business software with AI, but are using AI to build small custom apps and negotiate better vendor deals.
- Subscriptions Will Survive in Exactly Two Places
The subscription model survives only for genuine utilities and continuously-fresh-context services; the middle—static SaaS and exhausted catalogs—collapses as income shocks, context saturation, and AI repricing erode its math.
- Slop Terrifies Me
The HN discussion on AI slop reveals deep divisions over whether cheap, good-enough software from LLMs will destroy craft or just accelerate existing quality declines.
- AI Won’t Kill the Software Business, Just Its Growth Story - WSJ
Despite AI-driven selloffs in software stocks, replacing complex enterprise platforms like Salesforce or Workday with AI is impractical due to their deep subject-matter expertise.
- Threat of New AI Tools Wipes $300 Billion Off Software and Data Stocks - WSJ
Investors wiped $300 billion off software and data stocks after Anthropic's new legal AI tools sparked fears that AI will disrupt software companies' competitive moats.
- Loyalty Is Dead In Tech - by Nikunj Kothari - Balancing Act
Tech founders increasingly abandon their startups via licensing deals with Big Tech, leaving employees behind and breaking an unwritten oath of loyalty.
- SaaS, widely misunderstood ($CSU.TO, $TOI.V, $ADBE, $UBER, $CRM)
SaaS remains economically superior to internal AI-built alternatives, making AI an accelerant rather than a disruptor for established software companies.