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Issue 349
Nov 10, 2026

This week's SwiftLee Weekly covers:

  • Now available: AI Fundamentals Course
  • The problem that stops your app from ranking
  • SwiftUI vs. UIKit animations

Enjoy this week's SwiftLee Weekly!

THIS WEEK'S BLOG POST

​Agentic engineering: why I built the AI Fundamentals course​

My AI Fundamentals course is live! I waited months to launch it, because I wanted to be sure my workflows hold up in daily use. In this week's article, I explain why I built the course and what you'll learn inside.
​avanderlee.com​

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CURATED FROM THE COMMUNITY

​Hurry Up And Wait​

Agentic coding makes us develop faster, but it might not mean we're shipping faster as teams. Processes around us still need to adopt, and we should not be surprised about it.
​benscheirman.com​

​Apple Intelligence Group Lab 11/5/26 - Q&A​

New Apple group labs, means new learnings from direct questions asked. Thanks to Anton Gubarenko for putting this together!
​antongubarenko.substack.com​

​Continuous localization with L10N.md​

How can we make translations keep up with the speed of software development? That's a question Pedro asked himself and tried to solve.
​tuist.dev​

​More downloads than ever. Fewer people paying.​

I always enjoy following Sebastian Röhl who is a succesful indie dev with his HabitKit app. "keywords weren’t my problem, ratings were", just one of the learnings you can get out of this post!
​sebastianroehl.substack.com​

​SwiftUI vs. UIKit animations​

If you thought animations worked the same in SwiftUI compared to UIKit, you're wrong. Mihaela researched, and shares charts and videos with you to show the results.
​aleahim.com​

SWIFT EVOLUTION

An overview of last week's Swift Proposal state changes. Check them out when they're in review, as it's your opportunity to influence the direction of Swift's future.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON

Goodbye to another conference

Last week I attended Swift Connection in Paris. The conference was amazing. I met so many familiar faces, and I also met many new ones who have been following my work for years.

The talks were great, and they shared a lot in common. Many of them were about change and the changing environment. I think the biggest confirmation of that is the fact that Swift Connection, formerly known as FrenchKit, is about to go away. This was the last edition.

And honestly, it makes me think about conferences. Yes, they are fantastic, and we do need to keep finding places to get together as Apple engineers, but are conferences with tech talks still the future? If AI starts to write more of our code, what's really the value in it?

Instead, I think I would love to focus more on conferences that talk about product value, like how you can make Apple Search Ads more valuable or "I optimized my App Store page and this is what I did." I feel like the practical parts of app development are becoming more and more important and can have a bigger impact than a tech talk on SwiftUI architecture.

Nevertheless, it's extremely sad to see a conference that's been with us for so long go away. I truly hope the trend of new conferences continues because, yes, some go away, but we also received quite a few new ones over the past year. Let's at least not forget to meet each other in person and learn from each other's experiences.

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