First thoughts on Github Copilot integration for Xcode

The last few days I have been experimenting with Github Copilot and had it generate some small apps for me.

So far I’m moderately impressed and also had to laugh really hard when Copilot tried to cheat me by using a static solution instead of the Foundation Models (from iOS26 Apple Intelligence) solution I asked for. This was in a test project where I asked Copilot to generate an app that uses this framework to create Haiku poems. All in all it took me about 15 iterations, about 3 hours and some manual tweaking to end up with this:

Especially the UI layout needed a lot of work but that was to be expected. In the end, I guess it’s like having a very junior developer by your side. You really have to specify well and keep an eye on the whole thing. But it has been fun for sure, I will look for ways to actually incorporate this into my workflow.