In the recent past, I used Chat GPT to make my app compliant with Concurrency and it worked like a champ. I was shocked actually at how well it worked. I have 2 other apps which I fixed by hand. I just tried agentic coding with Claude Agent. I thought I'd create a basic recipe app, not to sell, but to get my feet wet. I wanted it to have cloudKit support and Swift Data. There were several errors during the process and I gave Claude Agent the error messages. After a number of iterations, it finally converged on a solution which allowed me to create a recipe, add ingredients and instructions and save the result. I didn't type one line of code. On the one hand, I was greatly encouraged. On the other hand, I have been an iOS programmer since 2008, in a hobby manner, and It kind of feels like someone off the street could accomplish what I've spend years studying to achieve. The result is that I had better come up to speed with agnatic coding and become an expert, because the genie is out of the bottle with this and there is no turning back.
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Developer Tools & Services
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Xcode
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