Maybe it's my PTSD from developing iOS apps speaking, but this reads to me more like an indictment of developing on Apple platforms than developing with AI. Even if it's partly about AI from a year ago.

I haven't really done any iOS-native programming in about a decade, but I have spent a godless number of days working through bugs, inconsistent behaviors, poor documentation, and weirdly broken builds in Xcode and iOS and various SDKs, and then going through a different version of the same hell for every new release.

Like, after suffering through the first few upgrade cycles, I started keeping a journal of repeated issues that came up, hoping I could reference it and save me some headache the next time... and then the journal just kept growing!! Every goddamn new release had a bunch of new headaches to deal with.

I recently touched upon some iOS/MacOS-related development (Safari extensions), hoping things had improved over the years, and immediately ran into frustrating dev experiences. Unfortunately I'll be doing more of this. TFA was light on the details, but it still left me with a bit of a 1000 yard stare.