A solo developer spent $2,000 in AI tokens and shipped a free Photoshop clone. Layers, masks, smart objects, curves, liquify, background removal, native PSD support. Adobe shipped Photoshop in 1990 and employs around 30,000 people today. The cost breakdown is the part worth studying. He ran 47 prompt chains and burned roughly 2 million visible tokens. Writing the code was cheap. What got expensive was feeding the growing codebase back into the model again and again so it could fix its own…