When AI can copy your software | Explained

For decades, one thing protected great software: it was just too hard to build. That is changing fast. One engineer used AI to make free look-alikes of Photoshop, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and said four words: software is over. A free tool that helps AI take software apart was saved by more than 100,000 people in days. The copies are still rough, but the speed is the real story. Now the big software companies are pushing back with their own terms, walls against AI bots, and a push for rules on the AI companies themselves. Lawmakers are stuck in the middle. A question for you: if someone cloned your features next week, what would make your users stay? 00:00 The old moat 00:35 AI starts copying 01:34 Who it hits 02:00 The pushback 02:40 The standoff 02:52 What it means for you Sources: Al Jazeera (14 Oct 2026), Adobe General Terms s.17, EU Software Directive Art. 6, Cloudflare, HasData survey (July 2026). The viral tool mentioned in the video: https://github.com/morluto/rea Explained by Curious PM · https://curious.pm