Apple is blocking AI coding apps because its entire review model assumes software holds still — but AI-generated apps dissolve that assumption entirely. The real conflict isn’t regulatory; it’s ontological. The infrastructure built around static software artifacts — version numbers, review queues, bug reports — wasn’t designed for code that generates itself at runtime.
It’s fascinating, even fun, to watch models evolve and being challenged like this.
There’s something magical about submitting a request in Claude that triggers an AI agent to run while you continue working on something else. I can see a world where many AI agents work all day for me, doing all sorts of cool things.
This morning, while chatting with ChatGPT to learn how to block access to one of my websites for a specific country (Russia, for example), I got my first ads in ChatGPT since I’m on the free tier. How cool is that?
Side note: I’m considering blocking access to my websites for specific hostile countries and replacing the content with a “GTFO” page. Yep, I’m like that. 💪🏻👊🏻 I’m still trying to figure that out because using DNS Proxy on Cloudflare is discouraged by Ghost and many other hosting services.
This morning, I tidied up my to-do list. Most of my ideas or projects involving Apple Shortcuts are now cancelled because I found alternatives using Claude AI. That’s a rather positive, as I never really embraced the Shortcuts mindset.
Apple has won a prestigious award for iOS 26’s Liquid Glass design — 9to5Mac
The ADC (Art Directors Club) Annual Awards have recognized iOS 26’s Liquid Glass design with four honors, including a prestigious Gold Cube in the category of Interactive / UX / UI.
There is something that I don’t get.
Now that I am comfortable with Claude Code and the Anthropic ecosystem, I find it difficult to switch and explore Codex for developing a new web application. I know I will eventually do it, but I tend to be loyal to a platform if possible.
I’ve been trying to make Claude Code work with Chrome for development purposes and failed miserably. I’m doing all the required setup, and no, nothing seems to work. Claude Code isn’t able to preview changes on my local browser. Is it because it doesn’t support the ARC Browser? I tested Codex, and it worked right from the bat! Mmmm.
Apple Working on Plan to Allow AI Agent Apps on the App Store:
Some developers are hesitant to work with Apple to integrate their apps into Siri because they are worried about providing new ways for Apple to collect commissions. Apple is telling some developers that it does not plan to charge commissions during the early stages of the partnership, but that fees are a possibility in the future. Apple has held talks with Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent about Siri integration in iOS 27, but the companies do not want to end up paying fees to Apple.
In the early days of the App Store, every developer aspired to be part of it because it was the ultimate platform. Today, the difference is stark and disheartening. I hope some people at Apple recognize that something is amiss. Developer adoption of the Apple Vision Pro has been hesitant, mainly due to concerns about the market size. This is an area where Apple could improve by adopting new strategies. Fees and potential fees are major obstacles that Apple can easily control or eliminate, and doing so could significantly boost perceived value.
Meta AI App Gets ‘Incognito Chat’ as OpenAI Faces Lawsuits Over Stored Chat Logs:
Zuckerberg also said that Meta AI’s incognito mode is the first major AI product where there is no log of conversations stored on servers. Zuckerberg likened the feature to end-to-end encryption, and said no one will be able to read the AI conversations, not even Meta or WhatsApp.
There is nothing incognito in Meta. I don’t believe him. Do you?
Dear Apple, I don’t want to see a new round of betas, skip iOS 26.6 entirely, and focus all your energy on iOS 27. Since iOS 26.0, I’ve seen many bugs that are still not fixed, nine months later, so I guess iOS 26.6 won’t do it either. I don’t know why some glaring bugs are still among us, poor iPhone users, but it is what it is. I hope that pouring all your efforts into iOS 27 might be the best strategy if coupled with a maturing use of AI to help your engineers in their journey. Who knows. 😑
