You can get like 95% of the way to a really nice, slick, working iOS app written natively in Swift using codex and GPT-5. But then you reach the point where you want to put it on the AppStore, so you need to get certificates set up for signing and all this other stuff. At that point, you stop being able to do everything from the command line programmatically, and need to start messing with the GUI in Xcode, and it’s just an absolute nightmare. Just hopelessly bad UI patterns, and you need to guess where everything is. Even when the AI tells you what to do step-by-step, it’s a huge cognitive burden to even find the stuff in the confusing and awful interface. Apple should really pause work on all other dev tooling until they have a totally complete, well-documented (in a single markdown file!) CLI and API that can be used end-to-end by AI coding agents for everything involved in creating and publishing an app.

This goes back to what @karpathy has said about how increasingly going forward, the audience and user base for software and software documentation is going to consist of AI agents and not people. So companies need to start focusing more on usability and ergonomics for the robots.