Adobe Brings Photoshop, Express and Acrobat Features to ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)

"If at any point you don’t feel like struggling with ChatGPT, you get an option to continue working inside Adobe’s...". telling

More and more these are feeling like they’re written for investors not users:

> Adobe is doubling down on its strategy of using AI to bring more users into its product ecosystem.

> Adobe has shipped many AI-powered features and products this year.

I’m not a professional designer but I use the creative suite enough in my contracting work to pay for it. The AI integrations thus far are laughable, more for a good laugh than practical use. I don’t have a lot of hope for this either.

If all this is a bubble I’m hopeful that it bursts soon. AI is powerful and useful but we’re so far into cramming AI features into products to satiate investment that it’s time to return to user based work.

(Also is “doubling down” the new “deep dive”?)

Language models haven't hit a wall, but it seems like OpenAI has.

The image in the header (Make my image more vibrant) is what Instagram's main feature was at the time of its launch in 2010

I think I would rather have them build out the APIs for these applications and publish better documentation. That way we could roll our own MCP etc.