I wonder how much of the recent Apple OS releases were done with "agentic coding".
UI design clearly was done by a chatbot.
spray those menu icons everywhere
Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
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Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#82Building castles in the sky while the foundation is rotting away :/ Xcode really needs a couple of years of pure bugfix and optimization releases instead of hype-chasing.
Bugfixes won't make shareholders happy while shoving AI down our throats will.
In what way is "AI being shoved down you throat"? Did you think that SwiftUI was shoved down your throat? Did you think that CoreData was shoved down your throat. Perhaps develop a more nuanced critique.
Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bugfixes won't make shareholders happy while shoving AI down our throats will.
So you're still in the anger phase?
Well yes but actually no.
For the last ~15 years or so I only use Xcode on the command line sporadically. Prior to that I had to endure the full Xcode experience. I actually liked it between crashes!
Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#84And yet, it still takes 5 minutes for my canvas preview to load, and one in 20 times it crashes the whole app.
Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bugfixes won't make shareholders happy while shoving AI down our throats will.
In what way is "AI being shoved down you throat"? Did you think that SwiftUI was shoved down your throat? Did you think that CoreData was shoved down your throat. Perhaps develop a more nuanced critique.
> In what way is "AI being shoved down you throat"?
Ask Microsoft, they have much more experience with that.
> Did you think that SwiftUI was shoved down your throat?
On a scale of 1 to 10, it has been shoved down our throats at level 1 or maybe 2. Thankfully it's optional.
> Did you think that CoreData was shoved down your throat
No.
> Perhaps develop a more nuanced critique.
I believe most people who used Xcode perfectly know what I'm talking about.
Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#86Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#87Building castles in the sky while the foundation is rotting away :/ Xcode really needs a couple of years of pure bugfix and optimization releases instead of hype-chasing.
This is not hype-chasing. AI is a key part of software engineering now. For this to be absent from Xcode would be an existential risk for the future of the product.
Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#88Building castles in the sky while the foundation is rotting away :/ Xcode really needs a couple of years of pure bugfix and optimization releases instead of hype-chasing.
This is not hype-chasing. AI is a key part of software engineering now. For this to be absent from Xcode would be an existential risk for the future of the product.
Claude Code from the terminal is servicable enough. Yet I cannot open the same project from different versions of Xcode without some manual finnagling. Xcode is at no existential risk for it is the only tool you are allowed to use to reach your audience on the app store. Don’t be ridiculous. The reason Xcode is as broken as it is today is because of the same exact reason. The developer experience need not be great, as long as you can coax the trash fire of a toolchain to upload a signed app to AppStoreConnect, there is 0 incentive for Apple to put any time into the tool.
Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bugfixes won't make shareholders happy while shoving AI down our throats will.
In what way is "AI being shoved down you throat"? Did you think that SwiftUI was shoved down your throat? Did you think that CoreData was shoved down your throat. Perhaps develop a more nuanced critique.
> In what way is "AI being shoved down you throat"?
This is a very strange question. It more correct to ask "In what way is AI NOT being shoved down your throat".
> Did you think that SwiftUI was shoved down your throat?
Yes
> Did you think that CoreData was shoved down your throat.
No
Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
#90When do you actually need to open Xcode if you have XcodeBuildMCP [0]? I haven't opened Xcode in months. My terminal: Claude writes code. build_sim. launch_app_sim. screenshot describe_ui. What still requires Xcode: Instruments profiling, Signing/provisioning For UI iteration, describe_ui returning the accessibility tree might actually be more useful to an agent than a preview screenshot.
Multiple config files of Xcode projects are not publicly documented as far as I remember and personally I have preferred to require my agents not to modify them out of fear it might break something and be hard to fix. I don't know how agentic programming will work in Xcode but I would expect it to do it using a safer approach, so that's also another case where it might have an advantage.
Your workflow looks very interesting especially the describe_ui part, are you already able to do this today?