Sources: Apple plans to send <200 developers from its Siri team, a group internally known as a “laggard”, to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp, as it revamps Siri
Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company is expected to unveil a major, AI-powered revamp of the voice assistant …
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- This is such a petty leak. Agentic coding tools are new enough that practically everyone is new to them and so there's no shame in taking training on how to use them. — Siri has its problems but the team behind it going to some boot camp to learn how to use tools like Claude Code isn't newsworthy. … @carnage4life@mas.to · Dare Obasanjo
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@midnight_captl
@midnight_captl
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A friend at Apple told me that over the past couple weeks, their team got access to Claude with a $300/day token budget. This is global sourcing on the business side, not engineering. I'm also hearing that when directors ask for backfill, senior leadership is asking what the
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
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“It's 2026 and we've decided the Siri team should learn how to code” unfortunately one of the funnier stories of 2026 so far [embedded post]
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Siri Engineers Sent to AI Coding Bootcamp as Apple Prepares to Deliver Siri Overhaul
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@kimmonismus
@kimmonismus
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Apple just made a quietly stunning admission: its own Siri engineers need to go back to school. According to a report from The Information, the company is sending close to 200 members of the Siri organization to a multi-week bootcamp, where they will learn how to code using AI [i…
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@aatilley
Aaron Tilley
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Apple is sending a sizable chunk of its Siri group to AI coding bootcamp, just two months before the planned unveil of long-delayed Siri upgrade. Problems brewing for Siri overhaul or part of a necessary retraining? Read more: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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@arroz@mastodon.social
Miguel Arroz
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It's amazing how incompetent the management of large tech companies these days is. They simply don't understand “AI” not being able to produce code that is maintainable or even works for anything remotely complex is a direct consequence of what the tech is and how it works. …