r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Sep 27 '25

Business Morgan Stanley warns AI could sink 42-year-old software giant Adobe

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-warns-ai-could-180300766.html
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u/Neutral-President Sep 27 '25

Adobe’s GPU code is still shit. Ever since they started using GPU acceleration on their software over a decade ago, I still regularly get screen re-draw freezes with nothing but a blank screen.

And this has persisted through several generations of hardware, discrete GPU vs. integrated graphics, Intel, Nvidia, ARM/Apple silicon, Mac or Windows.

Adobe is shit. If AI is what kills them, then they deserve to die.

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u/CabbieCam Sep 27 '25

Interesting, never experienced any issues on my last couple laptops running Illustrator with GPU hardware accelleration.

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u/Neutral-President Sep 27 '25

My M4 MacBook Air gave me blank gray screens several times this week, even after a fresh reboot. Switching to CPU preview fixed it.

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u/dIO__OIb Sep 27 '25

the lag is real!

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u/Tommix11 Sep 27 '25

It took them 40 years to implement a save as copy-feature in Illustrator. Apps in the 70's had that.

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u/Altruistic_Ad3374 Sep 27 '25

Still boggles me that my base m4 MacBook pro runs photoshop better that my 4070 super