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.

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isodev 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> AI is a key part of software engineering now

No, it isn’t. There are irresponsible voices in the community who claim that it is, but they always find convenient ways to omit the downsides (on both the tech and effects on society as a whole).

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bigstrat2003 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> AI is a key part of software engineering now.

It most certainly is not, lol. That's the hype that the parent was referring to. Most people have found AI to be a detriment, not a benefit, to their work.

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periodjet 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You’d have to be deeply ensconced in a particular kind of bubble to hold this belief.

	▲	gloosx 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		...or you have to be deeply entrenched in another kind of bubble to believe the opposite xD

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eptcyka 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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neutronicus 4 hours ago | parent [-]

For a certain-size project it really is not.

Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.

Great, Anthropic taught Claude to grep. On our project, it's still useless because it can't use the semantic search in the IDE.

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gbalduzzi 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.

This tells more about your code quality that about copilot, and I'm not a fan of copilot

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neutronicus 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I disagree.

Sure, it's a dumpster fire. But human engineers work on it just fine without investing man-decades into refactoring it into some shrine to the software engineer's craft.

The whole point of AI, in our parent company's eyes, is for no one to mention "code quality" as something impeding the delivery of features, yesterday, ever.

	▲	SgtBastard 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Claude, with a modicum of guidance from an engineer familiar with your monolith, could could write comprehensive unit tests of your existing system, then refactor it into coherent composable parts, in a day. Not doing so while senior management demands the use of AI augmentation seems odd.