Overview
There has been a massive bump of the usage of artificial intelligence in the coding sector. For the iOS development side, it would be via Cursor, and more generally with GitHub Copilot.
AI Training
GitHub owned by Microsoft, Microsoft trains its coding AI using public GitHub repositories, and I am fine with that. Or any other third-party AI company scrapping my public GitHub projects. But I know some don't want to, which I find fair, or because it violates the rights of the developers which seemingly couldn't opt-out of the AI training. And I condemn this behavior.
Usage of AI
This section is totally subjective, this is my point of view on the
current situation of AI in the world of coding and, more precisely,
iOS development.
I, Lumaa, don't use any integrated artificial intelligence to code,
like
Xcode's Swift Assist and predictive code completion
or Cursor's AI. But I do use a
bit of AI to code, specifically when I don't know how to do one
specific thing like, for example, the
ImageGradient.swift (Too-Much-Code)
file. But I don't use artificial intelligence to make full files, full
SwiftUI views or full Apple apps. And the only artificial intelligence
that I use is ChatGPT with no
subscription, using the
macOS app.
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is Apple's artificial intelligence ran on supported Apple devices. Apple's AppIntents API will allow in the future to make smart actions directly from Siri prompts. Recently, Apple gave developers new tools in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 and visionOS 26 to use their on-device large-language models (LLMs) in our apps to generate plain text or structured data. Additionally, developers can generate images using the Image Playground API. A few TestFlight apps are already using these technologies, like Bubble, Cookons, and others...