Is Software Over? – DTNS 5371
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Is Software Over? – DTNS 5371

B1IntermediateOctober 9, 202658 min
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Developer Brandon Thomas of Artcraft says he used Claude Opus 5.5 to build “clean-room replacements” for seven Adobe products, with Word, Excel and PowerPoint clones in the works. He declared software dead. Is software over? Ring announced a smart lock with a hand crank for emergency power. So, when it comes to your front door, are you Team Smart Lock or Team Simple Lock? Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe. To read the show notes click here! Support the show on Patreon by beco...

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Welcome to the Daily Tech News Show Big Tech Question, where every Friday we look at the tech news from the week and ask, what does that mean? What does that even mean? I'm Tom Merritt and this week the big questions are, are we headed to a chatbot controlled

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world? Windows thinks so. Are you team smart lock or team simple lock? They're not dumb locks.

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They're just simple. And is software over? One developer says yes. The rest of us say probably not.

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