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Recently I released my SwiftUI agent skill – a hands-on set of rules to help AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex write better SwiftUI.
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My name is Paul Hudson, and I wrote Hacking with Swift to help you learn to make apps for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more.
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