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.

Introducing MacroBrewery: A Collection of Swift Macros for Code Generation

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

If you’ve worked on a Swift codebase of any size, you’ve written the same boilerplate code hundreds of times. Memberwise initializers. Builder patterns. Enum case accessors. Test stubs. It’s tedious, error-prone, and frankly, boring.

Swift 5.9 introduced macros, and I finally had a way to solve this properly. So I built MacroBrewery, a collection of macros that generate the repetitive code I was tired of writing by hand.

What’s Included

@AutoInit

Generates memberwise initializers that improve on Swift’s built-in one: optionals default to nil, properties with default values preserve them as parameter defaults, and you can set any access level.

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

Introducing MacroBrewery: A Collection of Swift Macros for Code Generation

What’s Included

@AutoInit