Introducing xcode-remote: A Feedback Loop for AI Agents That Write Swift

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My coding agents live on a headless Mac, supervised by Leo. They run in launchd background sessions: no GUI, no logged-in desktop, nobody at the keyboard. For most work that’s fine. An agent can write Swift, run tests, even boot a simulator headlessly and screenshot it. What it can’t do is put the app in front of me.

The apps I want to watch run on the Mac I’m sitting at, in a simulator there or on the iPhone paired to it. So for a while the loop closed through me: the agent builds, I copy the .app over, launch it, squint at Console, and paste crash reports back into the conversation. That got old fast.

Apple Just Laid the Groundwork to Change the Public Perception of AI

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re a software engineer who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last six months, you already know AI is real. Not hype-real. Actually-real. It writes code, it refactors code, it explains code you’ve never seen, and it does all of it well enough that a lot of us have quietly reorganized how we work.

And yet, talk to anyone who doesn’t write software, and you’ll hear the opposite. AI is a joke. AI is a scam. AI is the thing that ruined their search results and took their job. The gap between how engineers talk about this technology and how everyone else does is enormous.

Ai on Evan Coleman

Introducing xcode-remote: A Feedback Loop for AI Agents That Write Swift

Apple Just Laid the Groundwork to Change the Public Perception of AI