Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office

You have two options: Pay $100 every year for Microsoft Office online, or pay nothing for the vibe-coded “Office” clone that does basically the same and runs fully offline. Which do you pick? The developer who used AI to rebuild Adobe's Creative Cloud for free has now turned to Microsoft Office, releasing open-source clones of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint built with Anthropic's Claude. Brandon Thomas, the engineer behind the ArtCraft project, published the apps on GitHub as WordCraft , GridCraft and DeckCraft .
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