Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

Facebook got excoriated for doing that with Onavo but I guess it's Good Actually when it's done in the name of protecting my computer from myself lol

The real news is when Codex CLI / Claude Code get integrated, or Apple introduces a competitor offering to them.

Until then this is a toy and should not be used for any serious work while these far better tools exist.

Compared to stock Claude Code, this version of Claude knows a lot more about SwiftUI and related technologies. The following is output from Claude in Xcode on an empty project. Claude Code gives a generic response when it looked at the same project:

    What I Can Help You With

    • SwiftUI Development: Layout, state management, animations, etc.
    • iOS/macOS App Architecture: MVVM, data flow, navigation
    • Apple Frameworks: Core Data, CloudKit, MapKit, etc.
    • Testing: Both traditional XCTest and the new Swift Testing framework
    • Performance & Best Practices: Swift concurrency, memory management

    Example of What We Could Do Right Now

    Looking at your current ContentView.swift􀰓, I could help you:
    • Transform this basic "Hello World" into a recovery tracking interface
    • Add navigation, data models, or user interface components
    • Implement proper architecture patterns for your Recovery Tracker app

You are free to point Claude Code to that folder, or make a slash command that loads their contents. Or, start CC with -p where the prompt is the content of all those files.

Claude Code integration in Xcode would be very cool indeed, but I might still stick with VSCode for pure coding.

I'm sticking with VSCode too, but it's a bit silly to suggest that anyone is using XCode because it's their preferred IDE. It's just the one that's necessary for any non-trivial Apple platform development.

Adding a code generator isn't a marketing ploy to get people to switch editors, it's just a small concession to the many hapless souls stuck dealing with Apple on the professional side, or masochistically building mac SwiftUI apps just to remind themselves what pain feels like.