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title: "Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office"
url: https://thecoingazette.com/developer-who-cloned-photoshop-with-ai-just-did-the-same-to-microsoft-office/
date: 2026-10-14
modified: 2026-10-14
lang: en
author: "Coin Gazette Editorial"
description: "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."
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
word_count: 27
---

# Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office

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.