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AI and reverse engineering have recreated major paid software apps for free, raising questions about the future of app development and software industry.

## Key Takeaways

- AI-driven reverse engineering is revolutionizing software accessibility by recreating expensive apps for free.
- Open-source rewritten apps in Rust offer better performance and AI integration than original versions.
- Traditional downloadable apps are vulnerable to being copied, pushing the industry toward SaaS and data-driven models.
- Gaming and hardware sectors are also impacted by AI-enabled reverse engineering and emulation.
- Community and data ownership will become key competitive advantages in future software ecosystems.

## What the video covers

- AI combined with reverse engineering skills has recreated major software like Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office apps from scratch and made them free.
- These recreated apps are rewritten in Rust, making them faster, leaner, and more customizable with AI integration.
- The technology allows unlocking and improving software and hardware, including gaming titles like GTA V playable in browsers and reverse-engineered smart devices.
- This trend challenges the traditional software market, especially for downloadable applications that can be easily decompiled and copied.
- The future of software development may shift towards SaaS models to protect algorithms and data from being copied.
- Developers are now able to modify firmware and hardware functionalities, sometimes leading to manufacturer updates based on community improvements.
- Gaming industry faces disruption as emulators and open-source versions of consoles and games emerge.
- The real value of applications may increasingly lie in community engagement and proprietary data rather than just the software itself.
- The video demonstrates how to download and use these AI-recreated applications via a lightweight Rust-based launcher.
- There is concern about legal repercussions from major companies like Microsoft and Adobe due to these developments.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction to AI recreating major software
2. 01:29 Examples of AI-recreated applications
3. 02:19 Improvements and AI integration in recreated apps
4. 03:38 Reverse engineering in software, games, and hardware
5. 04:37 Use cases: stress tracking and device firmware hacking
6. 06:48 Gaming emulators and browser-based gameplay
7. 08:07 Future of application development and SaaS
8. 09:08 Demonstration of downloading and using AI-recreated apps
9. 10:22 Legal and industry implications
10. 11:49 Value of community and data in software

Answers

## Questions about this video

What software applications have been recreated using AI and reverse engineering?

Major software like Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat), AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office apps (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) have been recreated from scratch and made freely available.

How are these AI-recreated applications different from the originals?

They are rewritten in Rust, making them faster and more efficient, and include AI integration through MCP servers, allowing more customization and automation than the original paid versions.

What does this mean for the future of software development?

The trend suggests a shift towards SaaS and data-driven applications, as downloadable apps are vulnerable to being copied and reverse-engineered, threatening traditional software business models.

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Something absurd has happened in the software world over the last three days. People using artificial intelligence, along with skills like Rea (Reverse Engineering Anything), have targeted the big five software applications and practically recreated them from scratch, making them free. We are talking

00:24

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about Adobe Suite applications, high-impact software like AutoCAD, and some of the world's most used tools like the Office package—Excel, PowerPoint, Word—no exceptions. These are applications that have made software history and are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They took them,

00:47

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downloaded them, decompiled them, distilled them, rewrote them, and made them public. This shocked me because these were once high-impact applications, and seeing them now just a click away for free download is truly mind-blowing. So, has developing applications become useless? What will

01:09

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happen to the IT sector? Let's talk about it in this video. This group of geeks is releasing, day by day, a number of applications that made software history, now completely free and open. For example, Gridcraft is nothing more than Excel. It’s

01:29

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identical, truly the same application; they just changed the name. OCAD Craft is actually AutoCAD, which has always been paid for and has always been one of the most cracked pieces of software; now you have the same thing, but

01:43

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unlocked by AI, like Photocraft. This would be Photoshop. It’s identical; what’s happening is mind-boggling.

01:50

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Vectorcraft. This is Illustrator. PDF Craft would be Adobe Acrobat Reader. Look, it has the same icons, same text.

01:59

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What is happening is mind-boggling. These people haven't just cracked and unlocked this software, they’ve improved it because they are all rewritten in Rust, see? In pure Rust, making the applications much leaner, faster, and more responsive. And not only that, because they added MCP

02:19

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servers so that AI agents can use these applications; something that doesn’t exist in normal Photoshop, in AutoCAD, and you don’t have the freedom to modify those apps: you’re always limited and, on top of that, they cost money. Whereas now with the open world,

02:41

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especially thanks to Rea (Reverse Engineering Anything), nobody knows what’s going on anymore because this skill, which has become famous with over 146,000 stars, allows your coding agent to perform reverse engineering; therefore, trying to decompile the application, understanding exactly how

02:59

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it works, and unlocking the algorithm so you can use the application without having to pay for it anymore. It’s not just a skill, because it contains various MCP servers and has a built-in decompiler, so it has a series of tools

03:18

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that help Codex and Cloud Code to, let’s say, crack applications. Now, application cracking has always existed, people have always done it, but with artificial intelligence, it has reached mind-blowing limits where all these applications worth hundreds of millions

03:38

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of dollars are now completely unlocked, and they are moving on to CapCut and other apps. Later in the video, I’ll show you how to download and use them on your PC. Take this developer, for example: he reverse-engineered the

03:52

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Apple TV remote and now he’s controlling it however he wants; he completely unlocked it. Or the absurd thing that happened in the gaming world: they reverse-engineered GTA V, optimized it with AI, and from this link, you can even play it from the

04:08

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browser. Look, I opened it right here. We can play a game as, let’s say, important as GTA V in the browser. This means we can also open it from a phone, from a smart fridge, as long as it has

04:23

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internet access and a browser. They optimized it to the point that it fits into 700 MB. It’s lagging a bit now because I’m recording at the same time, but it’s actually the full game of GTA V. And the same thing is

04:37

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happening everywhere. Essentially, there are people out there reverse-engineering apps, games, and hardware. For example, this developer took his Whoop—those are the smart bands that track your steps, sleep, blood pressure, oxygenation, and so on.

04:59

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And he used it by reverse-engineering it to develop an application that calculates his stress levels. This application was then linked to his work meeting schedule, and he created a ranking of "stressful meetings"—basically, which meeting caused him the

05:17

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most stress. And here you can see: 11.3 points manager, iOS engineer, blah blah blah; -3.9 Senior dev manager, to figure out which person was stressing him out the most. I mean, do you realize what we’re capable of doing?

05:33

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So, a question for you: who is the person who stresses you out the most?

05:37

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Do you need this application, or can you already feel it? I think you already know the answer, but it’s interesting to see how, in this case, he used Codex to unlock this device. Or take this other example of a guy who

05:53

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ordered this MP3 player from AliExpress, from those Chinese shops; the Bluetooth wasn't working, it was unstable, and it didn't work well for him. What did he do? He cracked it with Codex and, first and foremost, solved the MP3 problem. It worked perfectly.

06:13

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Second, once he basically unlocked all the hardware, he went and had everything rewritten, the UI, the menu, the icons, he had everything rewritten, practically solving the problem and making this device more optimized and nicer to use. And then the funny thing

06:34

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is, the manufacturer on AliExpress, once they saw the improvements made to the device, used that code to update all the others. So, do you realize that? You can actually go and rewrite the firmware, modify it on the devices we

06:48

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have access to. Not to mention the gaming world, where they are creating matchups between, um, basically Fortnite, Call of Duty with Minecraft: they’re doing everything imaginable and have taken old games, decompiled them, and rewritten them from scratch, and now we can play them on the browser.

07:08

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Everything is truly happening in software, not to mention this madness where, thanks to artificial intelligence, they reached 95.88%. To date, they have certainly reached 100% of the PlayStation 5 rewrite for its computer emulator; so, they are finishing creating the PC emulator for

07:32

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the PlayStation 5. Do you know what that means? It’s a huge blow to the entire, let’s say, gaming market, because no one will buy a PlayStation 5 anymore when they can run games on a computer, all open-source, and when GTA

07:49

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6 comes out, people will already be able to play it on their computer without being forced to buy a PlayStation 5. And so I absolutely wanted to make this video, especially to talk about the future of application development. Does it still make sense,

08:07

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today, to create an application that a user can download to their PC or develop embedded hardware with embedded code? Because we’ve seen that, with artificial intelligence, if the application can be downloaded, it can also be easily decompiled and recreated

08:24

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with these skills, so the question is: what is the future? Simply SaaS, software as a service, so that yes, AI might try to guess what the implementation is, but it won’t be able to copy your algorithm directly.

08:41

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Whereas with an application you can download, it will succeed, and we are already seeing it with hardware. Now, just click here on Download Launcher.

08:51

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Once downloaded and installed, we click finish, the launcher will open, and from the launcher, with one click, we can go—there it is—update restart, we update it. I’ll show you exactly the steps of how easy it is to download

09:08

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these applications. Here it is. This is the updated launcher. We want, I don't know, to install what is Deckcraft.

09:19

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Click on install. It's very lightweight because it's made in Rust. Yes. And once installed, open, look here, we basically have PowerPoint presentations. My name is Simone Rizzo. And it reads the same files. It has the exact same

09:41

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menu. Look here. Slide show. Let's add a new slide. Let's do a push transition. I mean the exact same application here, presentation, I mean it's mind-blowing to have access to this application.

10:01

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to Launcher, let's put Word, for example, which is one of the most used apps. Okay, let's install Word with one click, open. And here we have Word, study manual. Here's an example, there's the manual, same UI, same buttons. I mean, what I imagine now is

10:22

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that a lawsuit will start, Microsoft's and Adobe's legal teams will start, because these companies really risk losing their flagship products here.

10:34

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Now we must also say that these companies have always fought against piracy, they have always had to deal with competitors like LibreOffice, Calc , but in this case, since artificial intelligence is used, they can really take the same app; because LibreOffice,

10:52

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yes, works, but it's not quite Word. Here it's having Word open and not only that: improved, made faster and, with MCP servers it becomes identical, so we can optimize it for the use of artificial intelligence. This is the

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game-changer because they are demonstrating it now with these applications, PDF, Craft, Photocraft, Filmcraft, so they are taking all the paid applications. But it's only a matter of time before they do it with operating systems in the future, I mean

11:29

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, I imagine operating systems made open by AI, let's reason now about the future of software and why these organizations have targeted Adobe, Office, all these applications. What is the motivation? Obviously, they don't profit from it, because they release

11:46

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these applications for free. So they do it for the community, they really do it for the goal of the open-source world, for the sharing of knowledge, and above all because these applications, Photoshop etc., are applications that are now part of people's daily lives; I

12:06

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mean, they are applications that, sooner or later, one uses: Word, Excel, etc. And so there has always been this struggle, this war to open up technology. This is the real goal: open up technology, make it available to everyone, removing the pricing cost.

12:25

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That's why LibreOffice has always existed, and that's why for Photoshop there's even Photopea, which is on the browser and does the exact same things.

12:34

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Honestly, most of the thumbnails you see on YouTube, I make them with Photopea; it has the same functionality as Photoshop. So there has always been an attempt to rebuild and open up the technologies behind these large software programs. Artificial

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intelligence is nothing more than an amplifier of this movement, where these very skilled, prepared, and competent people now have a powerful tool, and so we will see this trend increasingly applied to complex software, video games, and operating systems. That’s

13:14

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what I imagine, but who knows what will actually happen. But is it still worth making software today? In my opinion, the answer is yes, but the concept of software is changing. Where, in the future, any application you develop

13:27

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that can be installed on a device can easily be, uh, unlocked; so, regardless of how secure you make the application, encrypted, etc., with AI, it will always be possible to reverse engineer it. And so, where does the value of the

13:42

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application lie? The real value of an application lies in the community and the data. In my opinion, these will be the applications that continue to survive. For example, if you build an app to manage a community like Discord,

13:59

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if you recreate Discord and manage to get people to join, okay, you can replicate the app, but the people who use it won't come to yours; they'll stay on Discord. So the truly strongest and most resilient applications are

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social networks, applications used by a community, and applications based on data. If, for example, you have specific data used to train an AI that you put into your app, the application can be replicated, but the model resulting from your data is much harder

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to replicate. Because either you take the same model and therefore you take, you take the weights, maybe it's local; but if the model is in the cloud, you have to rebuild that model, which means you have to rebuild all the data. Which

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is no trivial task, because if you are a company and you've recorded your data over a 10-year history—I don't know —on CAD drawings, projects, things, I don't know, or images, whatever dataset you have, that is extremely difficult and is something that protects you from

15:10

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people who might want to copy your application. So, in my opinion, we have to forget about local apps being private. There is no such thing as intellectual property on these apps because they can easily be replicated, even if you take a Raspberry Pi, a

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device, and put your own firmware on it , and so on. We saw it with the remote control, we saw it with the MP3, in any case with AI you can perform reverse engineering by even looking at the

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assembly code, okay? So there's no way around it, even if you use encryption. In any case, to run the code, you have to decrypt, compile, and execute it. So at a certain point, the AI can attack, it can reverse-engineer the app. We

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must think about creating apps that last, that have utility for the community, and that are data-driven, because otherwise they are easily replicable. But this, in my opinion, is not a problem; it's a new way of thinking about applications. The

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problem lies with these big corporations—Adobe has it, Microsoft has it—that based a large part of their revenue on these products which have now practically become public domain, okay? They can put Word in the browser, sure, but Google Docs is

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already there, and if you want to download it, why should I pay for it?

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They have to, I don't know, try to make it free and try to build a different business model, in my opinion, based on data. I don't know, they absolutely must change because this way, in my opinion, they won't make money anymore.

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What worries me in this sector is the video game industry, because these companies invest billions in some cases . For example, Rockstar invests billions to make GTA 6, and basically, all it takes is for one person to buy

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GTA 6, download it to their PC to play, decompile it entirely, and publish it openly. They’ve even done ports for PC, where everyone plays for free. So, the damage they can do to these companies is truly great, and therefore

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, the way to protect themselves is if the game is community-based; so, if they make an online GTA server where people maybe have to subscribe to enter that server which has challenges and modes, then yes, because it connects to

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the official server that you can't clone, okay? Otherwise, everything that is downloadable, I repeat, with the times we live in, is easily replicable.

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That is how I see it. I definitely want to know what you think. Let’s open a debate in the comments below to understand a bit about what is happening and what will happen in the software world. And as always, follow

17:53

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me to stay updated on the world of AI.

Topics: artificial intelligence reverse engineering software cracking open source software Rust programming software development future SaaS gaming emulators software piracy AI in software

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