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Coding agents can now take apart existing apps and rebuild them, so copies of a product appear within days
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- A developer built open source Rust versions of seven Adobe apps with AI, and Syntax and Fireship called the result surprisingly good.
- The Reverse Engineer Anything repo lets Claude Code and Codex decompile closed apps, and Nate B Jones and Nick Babich showed how to use it.
- Indie game developers told Ars Technica that AI clones of their games appear before launch, so they share less work in progress.
- Thoughtworks and Syntax argue copying is now cheap but inventing what comes next is still hard.
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Aakash Guptax.com · 5 November 2026
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