Vibe Coding in the Apple Ecosystem is Everything You Need to Know About AI ⭐️

2026 will be remembered for all kinds of reasons. Key among them is that vibe coding became real this year. It is astonishing how quickly this technology has evolved and how accessible it's become in such a short time.

Less astonishing is the continued pushback from older, more well-established technical people who still cling to outdated beliefs about AI. In this sphere, the chief concern is that while vibe coding may be fun for small, personal projects, it will never lead to supported, maintainable code bases for more professional apps that will be used by millions out in the world or in businesses.

That's cute. But in the blink-and-you'll-miss-it world of AI, things move much more quickly than ever before. In the 1990s, upstart Netscape was going to give creaking, ancient Microsoft the heave-ho by working on "Internet time" and shipping major software products each week, not once every two to three years. But today, that speed is slow, not fast, even for traditional software. Many of the apps I use are updated at least a few times each week, if not more.

AI takes this to another level, and it's not an exaggeration to say that it's improving exponentially faster than any technology before it. You can see this most clearly when you compare it to the non-AI developer advances that Apple and Google both outlined at their respective developer shows alongside whatever AI advances. For example, they are both promoting apps with dynamic layouts that don't target specific devices that will adapt on the fly to whatever form factor they're run on. Exciting, right? Sure, but it was just as exciting when Microsoft announced this same capability in Avalon, the presentation technology in Longhorn, in October 2003. It's like the industry has been treading water for over two decades.

Which would be true if it weren't for AI. With AI, increasingly, anything you can imagine making is suddenly possible. And if it isn't, just blink, because that capability is coming soon. The time frame is measured in days or weeks, not months or years. We're already at the point where using AI to create things is only controversial for those people who were already making things in more tedious and time consuming ways and expecting to be paid for their ADHD-like focus on some individual skill that AI just turned into a commodity. But for the rest of us, this is magical and life changing. And it just keeps getting better.

Even experts in whatever fields, understandably worried about their futures and careers, should acknowledge that AI giving their skills away is a net gain for all of us. As a writer, I am not outraged that AI is being used to create words, nor will I be surprised when AI inevitably wins awards for that writing. Moving from charcoal and paint on a cave wall to writing instruments and paper, mechanical typewriters, dedicated word processors, word processing software on computers, note-taking apps on phones, and whatever else didn't happen...