I built an iOS app in just two days with just my voice - and it was electrifying
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An independent developer used Xcode 26.3's integrated AI assistant and voice dictation to build a sewing-pattern manager iOS app in under two days, leveraging agentic workflows and Apple’s ML APIs. The piece highlights a dramatic productivity boost from AI-assisted coding but warns about painful issues with runaway background agents, token consumption, and stalled IDE sessions. The author describes technical migration challenges, how they implemented OCR and barcode filtering for pattern identification, and how tighter IDE AI access to Apple documentation helped implement new features. The article urges better visibility and control for background agents and contrasts working inside Xcode with using terminal-based AI tools.
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