The State of Agentic iOS Engineering in 2026

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My perspective on AI-driven programming, workflows, and tooling

Thomas Ricouard

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2025 was an AI-packed year, at least in my case. I don’t recall precisely how many times I changed my workflow, but I did experiment extensively. All in all, I can say that I’ve never worked so much and yet so little at the same time. You’ll understand what it means a bit later on.

Keeping up with AI trends is a full-time job, and I’m happy doing it. I’ve been motivated every day to improve my workflow, learn about new tooling, and overall improve my efficiency. It’s improving so fast, and as Andrej Karpathy said, “People who aren’t keeping up even over the last 30 days already have a deprecated worldview on this topic.” I agree with this statement. I’m not saying you have to, but I love being busy and learning, so keeping up with all this is just one of the things that bring me joy.

This article serves as a comprehensive 2025 debrief; the order of the sections doesn’t matter much, and I hope you’ll find a wealth of information about my workflow, agentic iOS programming, opinions, and much more, extending beyond our iOS world.

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