It appears Apple have indefinitely delayed Swift Assist @willoughby. Possibly due to the severe technical challenges they’re facing with Apple Intelligence as a whole (which includes features like Swift Assist). They won’t respond, so, don’t count on them. Swift Assist is currently a broken promise and they didn’t even bother to update/delete their own Newsroom article about it. They haven’t responded to my/anyone’s emails about this either. They also officially mentioned in the Daring Fireball podcast that they were training Swift Assist with licensed publicly available Swift code. Not internal code which should have better coding practices. Meaning, given their poor quality homegrown LLM as of now, Swift Assist will be inferior to existing players like Claude. The only advantage that Swift Assist will have is that they promised it will immediately know any SDK changes Apple makes internally, which third party LLMs like Claude cannot know until they’ve retrained to bring forth knowledge cutoff. Again, Claude is better than ChatGPT for Swift code. ChatGPT is well-known due to it being the first of its kind, but it is now fully established that it is not the best of its kind. For AI search, it's Perplexity AI > Copilot >= SearchGPT > Gemini. For Swift code, it's Claude >>>>> ChatGPT > Gemini >= Meta, etc.

No, @willoughby. You can use local LLMs and your own API keys. Alex supports these features. The advantage of using their own model (assisted by Claude and reinforced with reasoning from DeepSeek) is that it has probably been trained on Apple’s latest documentation and slightly better tuned for Swift development. This is just an anecdote but I’ve noticed better responses through their own model compared to using API keys to directly send prompts to the LLM services. And Alex doesn’t store any of your chats on their servers and I remember seeing on their documentation that even the LLMs they’re using behind the scenes don’t get to keep your requests. So, it’s also designed to be private.

Hello, everyone and @Documentation Engineer. As you can see, Apple won‘t respond. They may have silently cancelled Swift Assist due to the technical challenges they’re facing with Apple Intelligence. Use this product instead: Alex Sidebar. I found it to be reliable and helpful. It’s backed by YCombinator.

Hello, everyone. As you can see, Apple won‘t respond. They may have silently cancelled Swift Assist due to the technical challenges they’re facing with Apple Intelligence. Use this product instead: Alex Sidebar. I found it to be reliable and helpful. It’s backed by YCombinator.

Hello, everyone. As you can see, Apple won‘t respond. They may have silently cancelled Swift Assist due to the technical challenges they’re facing with Apple Intelligence. Use this product instead: Alex Sidebar. I found it to be reliable and helpful. It’s backed by YCombinator.

This is the only reliable tool I found @willoughby: Alex Sidebar The forums are not allowing me to attach a link. But you can find it easily. It’s backed by YCombinator