Software is dead and my private key is "4"

The internet seems to be back on the “software is dead” bandwagon again. Most of this has come from a huge wave of cloned apps and recompilations of software which has been made possible due to Claude Opus 5.5 and the other frontier models. If you keep up with tech news you have probably heard of ArtCraft which has spent the last month creating open source alternatives to the Adobe suite and the Microsoft Office suite of apps. These are marked as early alpha, which basically means they are full of bugs and not ready for production use yet. Even though there are bugs they are being rapidly developed and for some use cases they are definitely usable and at a price that everyone likes, free! The argument is that anyone can now vibe code a clone of your application and therefore software is dead. Everyone will just create their own personal applications for tasks and that no one will pay for software any more. Is that really the case though? There is a reason why the Adobe suite and…