Johannes Erhardt

Hey Swift community! Something exciting is happening. Until now, AI coding tools barely managed Swift syntax. They’d choke on SwiftUI, Concurrency, or Hummingbird, and needed constant handholding. That changed with Droid. @FactoryAI’s Droid just gets Swift. Last weekend I started a project from scratch with a single prompt. No hand-crafted scaffolding. And it built a working Swift 6.2 concurrency package. An absolute first. And it’s not just me. @rudrank opened a PR in MLX-Swift today that was 100 % coded by Droid. My first Droid project was an experiment. One naive prompt, low expectations, and somehow it just worked. So I’m doing a little experiment: 📘 Tonight I’ll RTFM 🚀 Tomorrow morning I’ll start a brand-new Droid Swift project — and live-tweet the whole thing. Let's see how far we can push this thing. I’ll probably do a ton of things wrong (and hope @bentossell can rescue me if I get lost 😅). Here's the plan: If you’ve followed me, you know I’ve ranted for years about the lack of good Swift AI libraries. Even Apple’s own MLX-Swift trails far behind its Python equivalent in features and performance. It’s frustrating. So I’ve got a long list of things to fix and create, starting with a performant TextView that supports both Markdown and LaTeX, and is optimized for streaming, and actually lets you select the whole message (not just one paragraph). That doesn’t exist in Swift today. Tomorrow I'll start with this. It's not an easy project, and I’ll be impressed if it works first try. If you’re missing any tools for AI in Swift, comment below and I’ll add them to the list. Let’s fix this ecosystem together. Swift deserves better. 💪