I haven't opened up xcode in years (thank god) I suppose this was inevitable. They have to keep up
Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
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Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#2723 days ago I saw another Claude praising submission on HN, and finally I signed up for it, to compare it with copilot. I asked 2 things. 1. Create a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton, for Pi Pico with st7789 spi display drivers configured. It generated garbage devicetree which didn't even compile. When I pointed it out, it apologized and generated another one that didn't compile. It configured also non-existent dri…
What an odd thing to ask it. I installed claude code and ran it from my terminal. Just asked it to simply give me a node based rest API with X endpoints with these jobs, and then I told it to write the unreal engine c++ to consume those endpoints. 2500 lines of code later, it worked.
Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s good at doing stuff like “host this all in Docker. Make a Postgres database with a Users table. Make a FastAPI CRUD endpoint for Users. Make a React site with a homepage, login page, and user dashboard”. It’ll successfully produce _something_ like that, because there’s millions of examples of those technologies online. If you do anything remotely niche, you need to hold its hand far more. The more complicated yo…
FWIW, I used Gemini to write an Objective-C app for Apple Rhapsody (!) that would enumerate drivers currently loaded by the operating systems (more or less save level of difficulty as the OP, I'd say?), using the PDF manual of NextStep's DriverKit as context. It... sort of worked well? I had to have a few back-and-forth because it tried to use Objective-C features that did not exist back then (e.g. ARC), but all in a…
I remember writing obj-c naturally by hand. Before swift was even a twinkle in tim cooks eye. One of my favorite languages to program in I had a lot of fun writing ios apps back in the day it seems like
Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#274The irony of this, is that Microsoft was trying to push CoPilot everywhere, however eventually Apple, Google and JetBrains have their own AI integrations, taking CoPilot out of the loop. Slowly the AI craziness at Microsoft is taking the similar shape, of going all in at the begining and then losing to the competition, that they also had with Web (IE), mobile (Windows CE/Pocket PC/WP 7/WP 8/UWP), the BUILD sessions t…
Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI so why they should worry? JetBrains just proudly announce that they now use GPT-5 by default. > going all in at the begining and then losing to the competition Sure, but there are counter examples too. Microsoft went late to the party of cloud computing. Today Azure is their main money printing machine. At some point Visual Studio seemed to be a legacy app only used for Windows-specific a…
> At some point Visual Studio seemed to be a legacy app only used for Windows-specific app development. Then they released VSCode and boom!
Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last week I asked Claude to improve a piece of code that downloads all AWS RDS certificates to just the ones needed for that AWS region. It figured out several ways to determine the correct region, made a nice tradeoff and suggested the most reliable way. It rewrote the logic to download the right set, did some research to figure out the right endpoint in between. It only made one mistake, it fallback mechanism was p…
This is just a thought experiment. I don't mean to be treading on feet but I'm noticing this more and more in the debates around AI. Imagine if there are developers out there that could have done this task in 30 mins without AI. The level of performanace of AI solutions is heavily related to the experience level of the developer and of the problem space being tackled - as this thread points out. Unfortunately the mar…
IMHO, the thirty minute developer would still save 10 minutes by vibe coding. That marketing's not wrong.
Spelling out exactly what you want and checking/fixing what you receive is still faster than typing out the code. Moreover, nobody's job involves nothing but brainiac coding, day after day. You have to clean up and lay foundations, whatever level you are at.
Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI so why they should worry? JetBrains just proudly announce that they now use GPT-5 by default. > going all in at the begining and then losing to the competition Sure, but there are counter examples too. Microsoft went late to the party of cloud computing. Today Azure is their main money printing machine. At some point Visual Studio seemed to be a legacy app only used for Windows-specific a…
Anecdotally: Azure is the Teams of cloud services - nobody uses it voluntarily or because it's technically the best solution. They use it because the corporation mandates it.
I’ve used Meet, Slack, Zoom and Teams extensively. Teams beats the others by miles in my opinion.
Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#277It seems every IDE now has AI built-in. That's a problem if you're working on highly confidential code. You never know when the AI is going to upload code snippets to the server for analysis.
Not trying to be mean but I would expect comments on HN on these kind of stories to be from people who have used AI in IDEs at this point. There is no AI integration that runs automatically on a codebase.
This is HN. 10 years ago that would be true, but now I expect 99% of commenters to have newer used the thing they are talking about or used it once 20 years ago for 10 minutes, or even nkt read the article.
Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#278Anything’s better than the current Xcode autocomplete. My pet peeve is it will try to autocomplete any string you start typing with just random crap it thinks you might want in a string.
I think all autocomplete solution are crappy, no matter how sophisticated the AI. It is surprising how often the obvious choice is wrong, but it often just is. I deactivated it. Generating some code is fine, but I now prefer the deterministic autocomplete for my types I have available in my current context.
Maybe you have not used a good one. Even the small locall only 100MB models Jetbrains uses are fine. Codeium/Windsurf one is good.
Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#279"Claude in Xcode is now available in the Intelligence settings panel, allowing users to seamlessly add their existing paid Claude account to Xcode and start using Claude Sonnet 4"
Headline quite misleading. So not exactly that it will ship in Xcode but will allow connect to paid account.
Re: Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
#280The irony of this, is that Microsoft was trying to push CoPilot everywhere, however eventually Apple, Google and JetBrains have their own AI integrations, taking CoPilot out of the loop. Slowly the AI craziness at Microsoft is taking the similar shape, of going all in at the begining and then losing to the competition, that they also had with Web (IE), mobile (Windows CE/Pocket PC/WP 7/WP 8/UWP), the BUILD sessions t…
Almost no one uses copilot unless they are not allowed to use anything else or don’t know any better. MS could have been a leader in this space but MS couldn’t understand why people didn’t like copilot but loved the competition.
Once co-pilot tendrils and icons began appearing in all of my orgs tools, they announced we would no longer be able to expense subscriptions for others. Only those who haven’t used ChatGPT Pro, Claude, Gemini, etc have anything good to say about copilot.