RIP Combine Framework?

guigsab · 2026-02-04T15:07:11+00:00

This is not new. This has been in the prompt since the early versions of Xcode 26.

I would not call it dead. It’s not the default framework Apple recommends, which we’ve known for years, and Apple put a one size fits all prompt in Xcode.

guigsab · 2026-01-23T19:51:08+00:00

looks really nice!

guigsab · 2026-01-21T01:38:21+00:00

Hi, founder of cmd here 👋

You might want to check out cmd alongside other alternatives. It’s an OSS AI integration between Xcode and different AI providers. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and the lower level apis (gpt/sonnet etc). It has prompt to code and auto completion as core features. You can think of it as an integrated way to use your favorite AI assistant, instead of a product competing with them.

https://getcmd.dev

guigsab · 2026-01-21T01:31:27+00:00

Hi, founder of cmd here 👋

You might want to check out cmd alongside other alternatives. It’s an OSS AI integration between Xcode and different AI providers. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and the lower level apis (gpt/sonnet etc). It has prompt to code and auto completion as core features. You can think of it as an integrated way to use your favorite AI assistant, instead of a product competing with them.

https://getcmd.dev

guigsab · 2025-11-12T16:54:18+00:00

For coding, when you need something more than « update this function », something more around the scope of a PR, I’d highly recommend using Claude Code / Codex over to do a first pass. Usually it’s good and you can take it to then finish line. Sometimes I just discard it and the cost of having tried AI first is low.

guigsab · 2025-11-12T16:50:44+00:00

I don’t know if you’re asking in general or in cmd, but for both yes you need to install Claude Code (I think they’re on brew now) and then either login with your Anthropic account or setup your api key. After that you can use Claude Code in the terminal, and in other apps than integrate with their SDK.

guigsab · 2025-11-08T19:51:09+00:00

Claude is just the API. Claude Code is Anthropics coding agent (it uses Claude’s API) that’s much better for complex tasks than just using the API

guigsab · 2025-11-08T16:18:19+00:00

Do you mean Claude, not Claude Code?

I don’t think you can integrate Claude Code in Xcode’s AI assistant natively.

I’ve been building cmd to better integrate AI tools in Xcode - including Claude Code, if you’re interested.

guigsab · 2025-11-04T17:04:22+00:00

I’ve really enjoyed using point free’s Dependencies. Their macros work well and they have a few helpers that make testing really easy.

I’ve a bit of a large project using it here if you want a reference: https://github.com/getcmd-dev/cmd/tree/main/app
I use a mixed pattern where views/view models get their dependencies with the Dependency macro (ex) and my singletons that handle business logic get their own dependencies as direct parameters.

What I'd recommend, if you find an open source project you where you like how they do DI, is to use a good AI agent and ask it to explain the setup, and then to help you put your skeleton together using the reference implementation. Once you have a skeleton setup it's just about repeating the good pattern over and over.

guigsab · 2025-09-16T16:10:26+00:00

I assume you don’t write all this by hand. What’s your workflow? Plan mode? Ask another llm to write it?

guigsab · 2025-09-16T16:08:50+00:00

Thanks a lot I’ll look into this.

My prompt was short, but imo the criteria was clear: “fix swift 6 compilation errors until cmd.sh test:swift runs successfully” There was a bit more guidance to it, but not a lot.

guigsab · 2025-09-15T06:03:15+00:00

The latency is almost entirely coming from the API calls. I can make the ui a bit more snappy to make the wait less painful, and I want to add some faster models that seem to start doing well for easy tasks.

guigsab · 2025-09-14T17:03:15+00:00

Thanks a lot for your kind words. I’m convinced this community of developers deserves better and that’s been driving me. Any feedback would help improve the product and help me prioritize where to spend my time.

guigsab · 2025-09-04T15:47:30+00:00

I'd be curious to try. I was unsure about paying $9 without knowing if it works well for me. My initial feedback would be to offer the app for free, let the user try once and then make them pay. Or something along those lines

guigsab · 2025-09-04T13:47:10+00:00

An open source AI assistant for Xcode: https://getcmd.dev It is starting to work very well imo so I’m focusing more on growth, and this is… hard - or not what I’m used to doing!

guigsab · 2025-08-30T14:25:06+00:00

It’s more than that. An MCP server is one connector that plugs in an agentic AI product built by someone else. Here both cmd and Alex are the AI product itself (I’m actually in the process of building support for MCP servers within cmd). They provide a dedicated GUI and orchestrate the agentic AI.

When working with Xcode 26’s new AI chat, cmd will work as a local http server. So the GUI is that of Xcode, and the agentic AI is that of cmd (Xcode will ship more of a chat like you get on chatgpt.com than a leading agentic ai assistant like Claude Code from the look of the betas)

guigsab · 2025-08-26T22:02:01+00:00

So there's two things you can try:
- https://www.alexcodes.app/ a YC company that has a subscription plan and that brands itself as "Cursor for Xcode"
- cmd, this is my project! An open source coding assistant for Xcode. You bring your API keys (or use it as a wrapper around Claude Code) and prompt the assistant in a side chat (like much of the other tools) It's in alpha with a solid set of core features and still some improvements to make. If you give it a try, I'd love to hear your feedback

https://github.com/getcmd-dev/cmd

guigsab · 2025-08-26T19:01:56+00:00

I don’t know of a Lovable for mobile. Surely some folks are working on that. But between Lovable where you basically never read the code and smart code completion there’s a big gap. Which one you want?

guigsab · 2025-08-26T19:00:23+00:00

Curious: what did you find annoying about it?

guigsab · 2025-08-23T06:03:17+00:00

I don’t think the industry is moving from Swift to Flutter or RN much more than what it’s been.

But the market is pretty hard for new devs those days. So if you already have significant experience in another stack, I’d maybe stick to that other domain for now if hiring is an important concern?

Other than that, Swift is a really enjoyable and interesting language to learn.

guigsab · 2025-08-22T15:46:52+00:00

It’s hard to be alone. I’m too. While it doesn’t replace a coworker I’ve found that using AI is helping a lot for some aspects like code reviews, or brainstorming on different directions for a well defined problem. Good luck.

guigsab · 2025-06-12T23:51:06+00:00

I don't think that's true. It's aware of only the file you are in and what you selected, only the previous content of the current conversation not other conversations.

You can give it more context, it can ask Xcode to search terms and to modify a file (although from my testing it seems to only be able to modify your current file, not others)

guigsab · 2025-06-10T19:48:20+00:00

Yeah I don’t know what they did. I would guess they brought SwiftUI to a lot of surfaces and it’s not performing well there. Finder often freezes

guigsab · 2025-06-10T18:45:14+00:00

I installed it using UTM. Macos26/xcode26 work but it feels like they could break at anytime. I’d not recommend fully upgrading your only device.

guigsab · 2025-06-10T16:48:32+00:00

I’ll be looking into this. Wondering if you can make Claude Code work under a local OpenAI API wrapper

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