Software development has changed a lot. On today's episode, Joe Fabisevich talks about building with AI without falling into the trap of "work slop," why prompting is a communication skill, where Apple fits in, and Broadcast — his new Swift logging library for developers and AI agents.

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• Build.ms
• Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social) - Macaw-Social
• Joe Fabisevich (@mergesort.me) — Bluesky
• Github (@mergesort)
• https://www.threads.net/@mergesort
• fabisevi.ch

Related Links

• Artifacts | Fabisevi.ch
• Supporting Markdown Search For LLMs
• AI (Without the Hype)
• Workslop
• Being A 1.5-10x Developer
• mergesort/Broadcast: Simple and composable logging for Swift apps, servers, and coding agents.
• AtLeast — Passive Timer for Apple Watch
• MonthBar - Track your month's progress

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Chapters

• (00:00) - Work Slop
• (13:02) - Verifiable Tasks
• (25:51) - Building Agents
• (32:06) - Careers & Hiring
• (43:31) - Daily Setup
• (53:00) - WWDC 2026
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Cihat Gündüz returns to break down everything from WWDC 2026. We go through Swift 6.4's quality-of-life wins, Apple turning Foundation Models into a full agentic harness, Xcode 27's agent and built-in skills, Device Hub, and where we land on the iPhone Fold.

Guest

• Cihat Gündüz (@Jeehut) / X
• Cihat Gündüz (@Jeehut@iosdev.space) - iOS Dev Space
• Cihat Gündüz (@jeehut) on Threads
• FlineDev

Related Links

• WWDCNotes
• My Top 5 AI Wishes for WWDC26 – FlineDev
• FlineDev/SiteKit: AI-first static site generator written in Swift
• QwenLM/Qwen3.6: Qwen3.6 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Group.

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• (00:00) - What's New in Swift & SwiftUI
• (09:09) - SwiftData
• (14:09) - Foundation Models
• (28:29) - Xcode 27
• (38:09) - AI Costs & the "AI Apocalypse"
• (48:09) - iPhone Fold

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Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Peter Witham joins us to talk about today's Platforms State of the Union. Is Apple Intelligence here? Is Liquid Glass here? Where's
John Ternus?

Guest

• Peter Witham - Developer, Podcaster, Streamer
• CompileSwift Podcast
• Peter Witham | LinkedIn
• Peter Witham - YouTube
• CompileDev - Twitch
• Peter Witham (@compileswift) • Instagram photos and videos
• CompileSwift | Facebook
• Peter Witham (@Compileswift@iosdev.space) - C.IM
• Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

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Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Joannis Orlandos stops by to chat about WendyOS, an operating system for bringing Swift and AI to robots, drones, and edge devices. We get into running Swift on NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi hardware, the future of cross-platform Swift across Android, Windows, and Wasm, and somehow end up arguing about whether you should let LLMs format your code at all.

Guest

• Joannis Orlandos
  • Joannis Orlandos (@joannis@fosstodon.org) - Mastodon
  • Joannis (Joannis Orlandos)
  • Joannis Orlandos | LinkedIn
  • Joannis Orlandos (@joanniso.bsky.social) • Bluesky
• WendyOS — The open-source OS for Physical AI

Related Links

• Wendy Labs Inc. — GitHub
• WendyOS Documentation
• Swift on Server — Joannis Orlandos
• Hummingbird — Lightweight Swift web framework
• MLX — Apple's array framework for machine learning
• Swift Android Working Group — Swift Forums
• Build and Packaging Workgroup — Swift.org
• Swift Evolution
• Bringing Swift to Android — Goodnotes

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Chapters

• (00:00) - What Is WendyOS
• (05:15) - Swift, Hardware & Getting Started
• (16:18) - Swift Everywhere: Multi-Platform Future
• (21:24) - Swift on Windows, SQL Server & WWDC Preview
• (30:19) - AI, Skill Files & LLM Workflows
• (42:30) - Swift 6.4 & Wrap-Up

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Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

After ten months away, Leo's back. He covers Swift Craft 2026, the rest of his speaking year (Beer City Code, iOSDevUK), and his honest take on AI dev tooling. Plus updates on MistKit, SyntaxKit, swift-build, MonthBar, and a new watchOS app called AtLeast (in TestFlight now). He's open to work, offering free 30-minute consultations, and a live WWDC 2026 episode is coming. Subscribe so you don't miss it.

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• Free 30-min consultation — Zcal
• Swift Craft 2026 — Folkestone, May 2026
• Beer City Code — Grand Rapids, Aug 14–15, 2026
• iOSDevUK — Wales, September 2026
• AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
• AI-assisted development talk (Boston) — YouTube
• MistKit — GitHub
• SyntaxKit — GitHub
• swift-build — GitHub
• MonthBar — month.bar
• AtLeast — atleast.app (TestFlight)
• Bushel — getbushel.app

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• Ep 203 — Milk Diary with Kaya Thomas

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• (00:00) - I'm Back
• (00:43) - Conferences 2026
• (03:54) - AI in 2026
• (05:59) - Swift Automation
• (07:34) - Projects 2026
• (12:02) - Free Consultation
• (14:37) - Thank you

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Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Kaya Thomas (kayathomas.is) comes back after half a decade to tell us about how motherhood inspired her new app Milk Diary (milkdiary.com). She talks about using new APIs like Foundation Models, SpeechAnalyzer, and AlarmKit to handle the complex stuff other feeding apps miss: intelligent scheduling and reminders, combo feeding that's actually easy to track, hassle-free tracking for twins and smart milk management.

Guest

• Kaya Thomas
  • Kaya Thomas (@kayathomas@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
  • Kaya (@kayathomas.is) — Bluesky
  • kmt901 (Kaya Thomas)
  • Kaya Thomas | LinkedIn
  • Kaya Thomas (@kayathomas.is) • Threads, Say more
• Milk Diary App

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• (00:00) - What is Milk Diary
• (04:20) - Foundation Models
• (10:56) - The Feeding App Market
• (13:59) - Liquid Glass
• (17:01) - AlarmKit
• (19:34) - Local and Server Side Storage
• (22:28) - SpeechAnalyzer
• (25:13) - Developing with AI

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Rachel Brindle, maintainer of Nimble and Quick, comes on to talk about what's new in Swift Testing and what the future of Swift Testing may hold.

Guest

• Rachel Brindle
  • Rachel Brindle (@younata@hachyderm.io) - Hachyderm.io
  • younata (Rachel Brindle)
  • Rachel Brindle (@rachelbrindle) • Instagram photos and videos

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• What's new in Testing, 2025 Edition
• nalexn/ViewInspector: Runtime introspection and unit testing of SwiftUI views
• Quick/Nimble: A Matcher Framework for Swift and Objective-C
• Quick/Quick: The Swift (and Objective-C) testing framework.
• pointfreeco/swift-snapshot-testing: 📸 Delightful Swift snapshot testing.
• swift-evolution/proposals/testing/NNNN-polling-confirmations.md at younata/testing-polling-expectations · younata/swift-evolution

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"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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• (00:00) - Comparing Swift Testing and XCTest
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Kabir Oberai joins us to talk about xTool, Cross-platform Xcode replacement and how Xcode works under the hood to build apps.

Guest

• Kabir Oberai
• Kabir Oberai (@kabiroberai@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
• https://x.com/kabiroberai

Announcements

• macOS Virtual Machine App for Developers - Bushel
• SyntaxKit - More Friendly SwiftSyntax API
• Post Show Discussion with Kabir on Patreon
• BrightDigit Newsletter

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• xtool-org/xtool: Cross-platform Xcode replacement. Build and deploy iOS apps with SwiftPM on Linux, Windows, macOS.
• cirruslabs/tart: macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations
• kabiroberai/node-swift: Create Node modules in Swift
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• (00:00) - Introduction and Announcements
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• (35:57) - Future Plans and Community Contributions

• Steven Lipton