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Tim, don't kill my vibe


’t kill my vibe · 3 minute read Recent criticism of Apple’s AI efforts has been juicy to say the least, but this shouldn’t distract us from continuing to criticize one of Apple’s most deserving targets: App Review. Especially now that there’s a perfectly good AI lens through which to do so.

This goes well beyond enabling new entrants to “ vibe code ”—experienced mobile developers who, despite history with Xcode and a predilection for building native apps, are begrudgingly swapping out their tools in acknowledgement of the inarguable productivity benefits. A friend asked me to send the app to them but that’d involve creating a TestFlight group, submitting a build to Apple, waiting for them to approve it, etc. OpenAI building an iPhone competitor might sound similarly hard to believe, but don’t forget that such skepticism—“The PC guys are not going to just, you know, knock this out.

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