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Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

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[–] ritsku@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago (4 children)

None of them work as intended and we already have free options why is this a headline

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Anything with AI in it gets clicks.

[–] likebudda@reddthat.com 7 points 5 days ago

Exactly. If I needed something more powerful than google docs then I'd download LibreOffice.

[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

True. I think it's greater value is being an AI middle finger to specific proprietary software. Especially if they incorporate and mainly focus on AI these days. As well as encourage it's use as a magical new tool.

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

most people do not even know that they exist to begin with.