First blog post in a very long time, please be gentle. I’ve been playing around with the new agentic coding in Xcode. I’ve used the ChatGPT and Claude apps but this is my first steps into the agentic waters. I can definitely feel the hype, and there’s some genuinely mind blowing moments, but I think I’ll still be coding by hand for a while. 🦕

#xcode #ai #swift #swiftui #claude #codex

https://blog.aselford.dev/posts/experiences-in-agentic-ai/

My thoughts on the recent fast-paced evolution of our AI workflow: The Tipping Point

https://dimillian.medium.com/the-tipping-point-d624283cbd6d?sk=86d87662a4575354cea49086510f70f5

Writers: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Artists: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Developers: Wheeeeeeeeee!

I'm still testing Claude (even switched to Sonnet instead of Opus) vs Codex. Gave them both similar prompts while cleaning up some code, mostly a mix of move this stuff around and review this change I just made. After about 30 minutes, my 5 hour usage on Codex is 3% vs Claude's 37%.

IMO Claude gives better insight at the "Review this" level of things, but just don't see how anyone can actually use it without going on the $100 or $200 plan. Unless I'm doing something wrong…

"how does the photos app on iOS render such a large grid of photos? Inspect the iOS simulator runtime and reverse engineer it to give me a high level overview of the classes and techniques used"

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-always-falls/

the single most dangerous person in any company is the guy who just discovered openclaw. he will reorganize the entire workflow into 340 nested cron jobs and then quit two weeks later leaving behind a system that no human being can navigate or comprehend. call him spartacus.

💜 A year ago today we lost one of the kindest, most-generous developers in the Mac community, Martin Pilkington (pilky). He was known for and worked on many projects over the years, but Coppice was his labor of love. I have been working the past couple of months on rebuilding Coppice for macOS 26, Liquid Glass, and the App Store, and I'm thrilled that today is the day I get to release it into the world — with all of its previously-'Pro' features available for free

https://apps.apple.com/app/coppice/id6741889046?mt=12

AI coding in Xcode is fun so long as you understand iOS 26.0 is not a real version.

#swift #swiftui #xcode #ai

i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

Well, this arrived a few months back, and now that I’m back from my travels in Sep and Oct, it’s time to find a place for it on the shelf.

The perfect setup. 💯

Is there really no way in macOS 26 Tahoe to add a keyboard shortcut that opens Spotlight's new clipboard history? I know I can do CMD + Space followed by CMD + 4, but this really needs to be a single keyboard shortcut. #WWDC25

why is it so useful? i find myself commenting out arguments to a function to try a thing _all the time_

folks like to say programming languages are designed to be read not written. but code is meant to be futzed with.

Apple Intelligence, previously, was only promised to work for US English and when your region was set to US. So it wasn't actually going to work in the EU at launch *anyway*. But now Apple have decided to make it a pawn in whatever legislative game they think they're playing, so I guess legislators are going to have to have an opinion on it now (decided upon in anger), and extend the DMA framework in that direction 🤷‍♂️

Be careful what you wish for

The DMA is only vague if you're trying to game it. The rules amount to “don't be a dick”.

Apple's out here asking “well how will I know if I'm being a dick?? I can’t operate under this environment!”

Whereas most people don't have to ask themselves that question

@gruber @stroughtonsmith wait why would “weird eu fans” be protecting Apple from valid criticism 😜 this might need more workshopping

I have a really odd issue with #macos #Mail and I hope fediverse hivemind can help me with it.

Several times a week, sometimes several times a day, Mail decides to remove bunch of emails from the inbox (and from other folders) of one of the Gmail (Workspace) accounts and starts downloading them all over again. Everything is normal on Gmail side, and Mail app doesn't do the same thing with the other 3 accounts. It just happens with the email account I use the most.

Don’t want to see the bell with a line through it because you’re always in silent mode anyway? Go to Settings > Sound & Haptics > Show in Status Bar to turn it off. #iPhone15Pro #iPhone15ProMax