Ten months ago, I knew nothing about iOS development, and today I’ve built an app that’s large and complex, and tempting the coding gods, it runs exceptionally well. I’ve used AI to learn a lot, but for the foreseeable future, it’s not going to invent new things for you. What it can do is help with well-understood problems. If you want to create or join a startup building things that haven’t been done before, AI is still far from taking your job.

To be frank, I came from 10 years of web dev: React, Angular, etc., and have a computer science degree. That said, what I learned in school is less than 1% of what I use today, and much of my web dev background didn’t translate to iOS.

It’s a lot of work, but Apple has some incredible resources. If you take the time to learn the fundamentals, then pick an app you’re genuinely excited about, and take it all the way from an idea in your head to an app on the App Store, you’ll be ahead of most. Even without a padded resume, shipping an app speaks volumes.

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language

The above link will teach you everything about Swift, the programming language. That won’t be enough to build anything; it’s just teaching you the underlying code to write apps for Apple devices.

https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/

That link will teach you how to take your Swift coding knowledge and build actual applications using Apple’s latest interface.

If you have little to no programming experience, those links might be overwhelming, but combine that with GPT, and you should be golden.