How I run AI agents on production code
For six months a fleet of AI coding agents has done most of my production work. The agents were never the hard part. This is the machinery that makes it safe.
Lucas Firmo · Senior iOS engineer
Practical notes from 13 years of Swift and from running a fleet of AI coding agents on production code. Short, tested, and written for working engineers.
For six months a fleet of AI coding agents has done most of my production work. The agents were never the hard part. This is the machinery that makes it safe.
No big-bang rewrite. Small PRs, a warnings baseline on every PR and tests on the old code before touching it.
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Learn how @Binding lets SwiftUI views share and update state seamlessly. We'll cover the difference between read-only and read & write bindings, with clear examples to keep your code clean and in sync.
Discover how @State helps SwiftUI views manage their own data. A simple guide with clear examples to understand how state works and why it's essential for building dynamic UIs.
SwiftUI, Swift 6 concurrency and the patterns that hold up in a large production app.
How to run coding agents on a production codebase with review, proof and guardrails.
Small reviewable steps, tests that fail first, and measuring before and after.
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