The AI-Powered Adobe Uninstaller We Deserve
Description
This image is a screenshot of a tweet from Gergely Orosz, a well-known author and voice in the software engineering community. The tweet, set on a black background with white text, reads: 'Legendary use case for Claude Code I've just heard: “It managed to uninstall all Adobe products from my Mac by telling Claude Code to do this. Took a bunch of tokens but was worth it.” (lykyk)'. The humor resonates deeply with experienced developers for several reasons. First, Adobe's software suite is notoriously difficult to fully uninstall from macOS, often leaving behind numerous hidden files and background processes. Second, using a sophisticated and computationally expensive AI like Anthropic's Claude Code for such a mundane task is absurdly over-engineered, highlighting the sheer desperation of users. The punchline, 'Took a bunch of tokens but was worth it,' perfectly captures the sentiment that the cost of using the AI is less than the pain of manual removal. The acronym '(lykyk)' for 'if you know, you know' reinforces that this is an inside joke for those who have suffered this specific technical frustration
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You know your uninstaller has failed when users are willing to burn through a small nation's GDP in AI tokens just to achieve a clean file system
When the official Adobe Uninstaller needs an uninstaller, call the LLM - just be ready to pay in tokens instead of tears
The real AGI benchmark isn't passing the Turing test or solving P=NP - it's successfully removing every trace of Adobe Creative Cloud from a Mac without leaving behind 47 background processes, 3 launch agents, and a mysterious 8GB cache folder that regenerates itself at 3am
Finally, an AI use case that justifies the compute costs: automating the one task that's harder than distributed consensus - completely removing Adobe Creative Cloud from a Mac. Who knew the real killer app for LLMs wasn't replacing developers, but replacing the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool?
Claude wrote the bash that nuked CCXProcess and forgot the pkg receipts - the first time tokens successfully canceled a subscription
LLM ROI math: pay for tokens, get a bash script that unloads LaunchAgents/Daemons, pkgutil --forget receipts, and evicts Creative Cloud - still cheaper than Adobe’s twelve‑dialog uninstall
Claude's context window: finally long enough to hold all of Adobe's uninstall manifest without truncation errors
Wanna do this with VS on win Comment deleted
But can it completly uninstall MailRuSputnik? Comment deleted
MailRuSputnik will easily destroy claude code if youll ever try to do this Comment deleted
please explain Comment deleted
You need to live in Russia to understand it. MailRuSputnik is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentially_unwanted_program Comment deleted
no it's literally like everywhere like this. Comment deleted
no I meant the meme itself not MailRuSputnik Comment deleted