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Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office
DecryptWednesday, October 14, 2026 at 9:16 PM
RedScroll Brief
Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They're rough, but they show how cheap cloning software has become.
RedScroll Signal
- Impact
- High
- Category
- Crypto
- Market relevance
- High
- Why it matters
- Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk. Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They're rough, but they show how cheap cloning software has become. Watch liquidity and volatility around Developer Who Cloned and Photoshop With — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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What happened
Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They're rough, but they show how cheap cloning software has become.
Why it matters
Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk.
Background
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Timeline
Decrypt published: Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office
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Economic impact
Watch liquidity and volatility around Developer Who Cloned and Photoshop With — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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