Rui Carmo
(Checks notes.) is this… Apple finally doing… AI?
Xcode 26.3 getting official Claude and Codex integration without the usual guardrails is interesting enough, but having MCP in the mix is… unusually open for Apple.
Given Claude’s propensity to botch up Swift semantics, though, I’m happy they announced both–and although I’m not surprised they didn’t add any Apple models, I would have expected Gemini to be in the mix, even this early.
But at least they seem to have done their homework where it regards the in-editor agent harness–not sure how deep they went into IDE primitives (file graph, docs search, project settings), though, and the apparent lack of skills and other creature comforts that all the VS Code–based tools have is a bit of a bummer.
The fact that they put the chat interface on the left in total defiance of everyone else’s design is, of course, because they just had to mess with our heads.
Design is how it works, after all.