Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding

Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by eptcyka on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:55PM (#46876345)

Claude Code from the terminal is servicable enough. Yet I cannot open the same project from different versions of Xcode without some manual finnagling. Xcode is at no existential risk for it is the only tool you are allowed to use to reach your audience on the app store. Don’t be ridiculous. The reason Xcode is as broken as it is today is because of the same exact reason. The developer experience need not be great, as long as you can coax the trash fire of a toolchain to upload a signed app to AppStoreConnect, there is 0 incentive for Apple to put any time into the tool.

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by neutronicus on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:20PM (#46876702)

For a certain-size project it really is not.

Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.

Great, Anthropic taught Claude to grep. On our project, it's still useless because it can't use the semantic search in the IDE.

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by gbalduzzi on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:41PM (#46876971)

> Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.

This tells more about your code quality that about copilot, and I'm not a fan of copilot

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by neutronicus on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:52PM (#46877132)

I disagree.

Sure, it's a dumpster fire. But human engineers work on it just fine without investing man-decades into refactoring it into some shrine to the software engineer's craft.

The whole point of AI, in our parent company's eyes, is for no one to mention "code quality" as something impeding the delivery of features, yesterday, ever.

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by SgtBastard on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:07PM (#46877311)

Claude, with a modicum of guidance from an engineer familiar with your monolith, could could write comprehensive unit tests of your existing system, then refactor it into coherent composable parts, in a day.

Not doing so while senior management demands the use of AI augmentation seems odd.

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by neutronicus on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:08PM (#46880511)

It's a 25-year-old CAD application written in very non-standard C++. I doubt it.

Certainly I have tried to accomplish tasks giving Claude guidance far outstripping "a modicum".

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by throw3e98 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:12AM (#46882107)

> On our project, it's still useless because it can't use the semantic search in the IDE.

Zed's ACP seems to be a good solution to this - when using it, claude code has access to the IDE's diagnostics and tools, just like the human operator. https://zed.dev/acp

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