Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

I'm also not sure why you'd think that, Apple's been at the forefront of "AI" for years now, running models locally and optimizing their CPUs for local workloads to e.g. identify people, places and pets (much appreciated lmao), create slideshows, and subtly improve photo's made on the device.

dyauspitr2• 3 months ago

The photo organization is nice but that being said, if you try to use the on device Apple Foundation models you quickly find it is totally useless.

tracerbulletx• 3 months ago

Some people are living in a different universe. Every single tech company I know is pivoting their entire company to AI based software development. Its in the performance evals, the wallet is fully open to use tokens to experiment, every practice and every process is open for re-evaluation. Its all gas no breaks everywhere. The conversation on the internet does not seem to realize this? Or is in denial.

ryandrake2• 3 months ago

I think OP's comment comes from the "Think Different" mysticism that used to be around Apple. You'd think that if there was one company on the planet not embracing slop, it would be Apple, and the realization that it's not the case can be a bummer.

corpoposter• 3 months ago

I can’t tell if “all gas no breaks” was intentional or not, but “no breaks” does seem to be a part of the culture shift within big tech around AI.

beepbooptheory• 3 months ago

Yeah, and we seem to talk everyday about how they are all getting shittier. I'm sure its just coincidence though.

sathomasga• 3 months ago

Well, that "different universe" includes the tech company that employs me. I like my universe better.

dyauspitr2• 3 months ago

Why? It’s 1000x faster than most developers and can handle pretty hard problems.

fantasizr2• 3 months ago

we'll see if the tradeoff for speed is quality soon enough.

vor_• 3 months ago

That's certainly a claim.

sharts2• 3 months ago

Feels like the most apple-like thing ever. Everyone seems to have differing perceptions of apple.

bb123• 3 months ago

"What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds." — Steve Jobs.

internet2000• 3 months ago

Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple is doing internally in terms of product development, a lot of their internal tools…They have custom versions of Claude running on their own servers internally.

--Mark Gurman, Bloomberg https://x.com/tbpn/status/2016911797656367199

rustyhancock• 3 months ago

Apple seems to purposefully have decided to sit out the arms race.

Probably smart time to rent and not buy if they plan on buying in a downturn.

stefan_• 3 months ago

Okay, but why is the Siri team sitting out transformers. I really wanna move past the „Dragon Naturally Speaking“ experience with a bolted on decision tree.

iLoveOncall• 3 months ago

Not participating in the war is the only true way to win the war, nothing new.

And in this particular war, it's even worse, the "winner" will actually just be the "biggest loser", contrarily to a traditional war.

api• 3 months ago

This is how they usually roll. They innovate sometimes in hardware but tend to fast follow or even slow follow in software and services.

Apple Intelligence is a placeholder and a toe in the water.

mathisfun123• 3 months ago

I love these comments - have you ever heard of Occam's razor?

dzhiurgis• 3 months ago

Wonder how much of it is raw compute constrain. Adding additional 1billion LLM users is near impossible. I spend a lot on tokens and still get throttled.

piker3• 3 months ago

I'm suspicious of that take from Mark Gurman. That's a lot of detail around pricing and "holding Apple over a barrel" as relates to the Siri deal that seems like a nice PR spin from Anthropic.

Anthropic probably couldn't give the uptime guarantees that Google can, right?

Spooky233• 3 months ago

Apple is a pretty difficult company to deal with on a B2B basis.

If you have terms that conflict with theirs, they aren’t very flexible. Anthropic can be similarly difficult, and their needs from a business perspective probably don’t align with Siri. I would imagine that Google has a more flexible/long term approach to absorbing some risk in a revenue share arrangement than anthropic who generally wants cash.

Anthropic’s only purpose is to juice whatever KPI‘s are gonna increase their IPO market cap.

Lord-Jobo• 3 months ago

Gueman might be the only leaker in tech who, so far, doesn’t seem to fuck around. Low miss rate, rarely exaggerates. Of course that could change and he could always get insider info that is wrong.

danpalmer• 3 months ago

The reporting says it's running on their own hardware.

turtlesdown112• 3 months ago

Gurman is clearly Apple's preferred go to for leaking info

jedisct1• 3 months ago

They have custom versions of Claude running on their own servers internally.

This is the important point.

Sending their internal code, documentation, secret tokens, etc. to Anthropic would be completely irresponsible.

But if they are running the models on their own servers, why not!

JeremyNT• 3 months ago

Was it even publicly known that Anthropic offered this capability? I wasn't aware on-prem Claude was a thing.

christkv• 3 months ago

I really hope its not churning out massive amounts of code for osx and ios or we are in for some pretty interesting times in the next year or so.

neko_ranger• 3 months ago

So much FUD (and bot replies dogpiling on?) in that thread. It's just a file that specifies some structure for the project. Nothing super secret.

fidotron• 3 months ago

X somehow manages to get worse for this as time goes on.

Seems like at some point most of the actual humans just gave up on replying.

sunaookami• 3 months ago

Why bother replying if your post gets buried under AI bots with twitter blue (or whatever it's called now) that just try to farm engagement for money. Revenue sharing is a big mistake for every platform because it incentives engagement slop. Ordering by Newest first often gives you more human replies.

klustregrif2• 3 months ago

It’s not super secret no. It’s just embarrassing they they don’t have instructions in their AI agents coding and pushing deployments to not push the Claude.md files. It demonstrates that they haven’t fed their AI prompts through AI yet cause it would hav added a clause for that.

caymanjim• 3 months ago

Have you never used Claude? It regularly ignores directives, no matter how they're worded or how many times they're repeated. It's also hierarchal. Org-wide rules would be in a higher-level directory than repo rules or component rules. This is obviously just a tiny snippet of prompts.

fantasizr2• 3 months ago

mostly it's a knock on their lack of attention to detail which was sorta jobs' thing. is the culture becoming lax in this new era

ramon156• 3 months ago

Unrelated:

Yuck. a lot of those replies have LLM smells. Do people love being a hollow puppet for LLMs to fill in? Have people lost their identity?

j-kent• 3 months ago

It's not about contributing to the conversation — it's about the fake internet points.

2ndorderthought2• 3 months ago

It's not about the fake internet points — it's about manipulating people to support companies they otherwise wouldn't.

ihaveajob• 3 months ago

I find it hilarious that your comment has an emdash.

sidsud• 3 months ago

You've hit the nail on the head with that observation! And honestly? The points are all that matters.

yread• 3 months ago

The real unlock is all the time you've saved yourself!

mitchitized• 3 months ago

You're absolutely right!

(sorry couldn't resist)

SpicyLemonZest• 3 months ago

If I were a sociopath who didn’t care at all about the commons I’d be ruining by doing so, I suppose I’d find it intellectually interesting to set up a ClaudeyLemonZest and see how people react to various settings.

smcg• 3 months ago

Come join the party at ClaudeyLemonParty

dgellow2• 3 months ago

Yep, path of least resistance unfortunately. Any recommendations that isn’t discord where to have meaningful online interactions with actual humans?

Cthulhu_6• 3 months ago

Only a matter of time (if not already) before there's counter-LLMs or whatnot that convince free-reign LLM agents to go and generate cryptocurrencies for the attacker or run propaganda campaigns.

exitb• 3 months ago

Also, at some point someone will figure out how to reliably produce non-smelly LLM replies.

coldpie2• 3 months ago

It's trending in that direction. If you want genuine conversation with humans, it's best to start looking for small, private communities that have and enforce LLM policies that align with your desires. Public social media is universally trash, don't waste your time there. I think HN is still worth visiting for now, but it's getting harder to justify spending time here with the quantity of garbage-quality LLM articles and even many comments.

Hendrikto• 3 months ago

HN is still worth visiting, but it's getting harder to justify spending time here

I feel the same. Quality of both submissions and discussions have considerable decreased. It is still the best general purpose “aggregator” I know of, but it is not what it was. It is becoming more and more FotM hype and boring group-think.

HN was great due to the breadth of unique, interesting, nerdy topics, most of which I would have never come across on my own; and the insightful thought-provoking commentary, often by insiders with unique insights and perspectives.

Now it is just the same LLM agentic coding harness hype cycle astroturfing 100x engineer 37k LoC/day BS I could get from Reddit or LinkedIn or Twitter or anywhere else.

The moderators are still doing a fantastic job though! I feel like that is the last big differentiator from just being orange Reddit.

zipy1242• 3 months ago

Lobsters still maintains a reliable comment section free of bots (for now!).

20k• 3 months ago

We're getting to a point where we're going to have to consistently start putting content in that AI is banned from writing, just to prove that we're humans

arse

CamperBob2• 3 months ago

Fuckin' A!

semiquaver• 3 months ago

Dead internet. Twitter is 95% bots now, especially when it comes to any topic relevant to corporations.

christophilus• 3 months ago

It’s not that they’ve lost their identity— it’s that… { “error”: “Claude Max limits exceeded” }

blitzar3• 3 months ago

You are absolutely right ...

ricardo812• 3 months ago

Yuck indeed. I do find it offensive when someone uses AI in a conversational manner. It's one thing to use it to chuck up content on social media to attract eyeballs, but this is a forum intended for conversation.

ori_b2• 3 months ago

No . Both are offensive denial of service attacks on people's limited attention.

hansmayer• 3 months ago

Do people love being a hollow puppet for LLMs to fill in? Have people lost their identity?

The first question, answer is yes - most people live their lives mindlessly, with or w/o LLMs (think every idiot you knew 20 years go throwing in punch lines from "Friends" to sound "funny"), To the second question - most people have a twisted view of identity. It is supposed to mean something identifying you uniquely,but to the most people it means, identifying you as a member of a large group (nationality/political view/religion/major music genre you like). So, now when every proverbial Dick, Tom and Harry use LLMs to generate Confluence content with shiny emojis, what are the proverbial Emily or John to do? Of course, they will adopt this new identity - its who people are now - shallow, hollow puppets for LLMs to fill in. And to think of the irony - mother Nature perfected this super-efficient, low energy and highly capable thinking machine, each and every one of us holds in their skull. Its already put us on the moon once, before we even had a semblance of a functioning computer! And we choose to throw it away, for fucking what? Verbal diarrhea and pain inducing coloured walls of texts?

All so some retarded antisocial VC-funded "AI founder" can call themselves a tech visionary?

dawnerd3• 3 months ago

And when Called out they’ll use some excuse like oh I use it to fix grammar or translation. No, it’s completely obvious they’re being that lazy. I’d rather read comments with mistakes than LLM slop.

redwall_hp2• 3 months ago

I recently preordered Cory Doctorow's book dealing with this: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

The title refers to most machinery being a "centaur," meaning a thinking human is carried by the machine doing the heavy lifting, while the goal of AI companies is to replace high value work with the opposite. They want to turn people into meat appendages that serve unthinking machines.

moomoo11• 3 months ago

Most people are automatons. As long as you’re not the one being steered it’s great. Then you’re not the livestock.

mannanj• 3 months ago

No, I don't think people love that, I think it's in the LLM company and the bourgeoise class of people who push and shove AI down everyones' throat for more money and control though to puppetize people. I mean, like it's been an active part of leadership history and much of what shaped our times today: people get comfortable and even self grandiose with their place in life, and to hold on to and further their power its not hard to see others as below them and use their power and influence to do things that are otherwise harmful to others.

The lost of identity is imo this. It's people being given horrible harmful options for their meaning, health and wellbeing and so we get a general sense of most people being lost. Lost in identity as you asked, though I think it's more than that. In my initiatory work with men (being initiated, not initiating others) we learn that part of the breakdown in this for most people is being given harmful identity frameworks of dependency and reliance on others. In the initiatory process we learned an identity of service beyond ourselves through deep embodiment, and exercise and practice beyond just an intellectual grokking of it, edit: this is what we used to have through human history but today now as is described in the works most people have only what would be called pseudo-initiations (marriage, school graduations, children & work changes) which do not meaningfully contributing to meaning, contribution or purpose.

What most of us have today and what the AI companies want us to believe: We will give you the money to live (though of course, when you're truly dependent on others, and they see no purpose or value for you and even your entertainment value has gone, why would they keep you around?)

mushufasa• 3 months ago

Is it really a mistake? OpenAI's own agent SDK also has a Claude.md file. That's not an indication that OpenAI internally use Claude, rather, it's there because the SDK has multi-model support.

klustregrif2• 3 months ago

It was a mistake yes. And they corrected it. Why would you assume they would do this intentionally?

traceroute66• 3 months ago

Whilst tempting, I think it is important not to read too much into this.

It is no secret that Apple has an enormous R&D budget.

It is no secret that Apple operates with hundreds of siloed teams in order to maintain individual domain expertise. The teams then come together in a collaborative manner to bring together the final products.

So yes, it is likely true that SOME teams use SOME LLM for SOME tasks. It is a viable argument from R&D and other perspectives. Apple is an enormous multinational company, it is unlikely they have zero-AI on-site.

What is guaranteed NOT to be the case is that Apple is somehow vibecoding company-wide. Old-school engineering is too important for Apple.

I'm sure journalists and Anthropic would love to have you believe otherwise, but I think we need to keep our feet on the ground here and accept the reality is more old-school.

Afterall, as others have pointed out already here ... whilst the rest of Silicon Valley has been shoveling truckloads of cash at AI, Apple have been patiently sitting, watching the bandwagon trundle along the rails.

einsteinx22• 3 months ago

It is no secret that Apple operates with hundreds of siloed teams in order to maintain individual domain expertise. The teams then come together in a collaborative manner to bring together the final products.

Having worked there this is a perfect description of the organization from my experience.

So yes, it is likely true that SOME teams use SOME LLM for SOME tasks. It is a viable argument from R&D and other perspectives.
What is almost guaranteed NOT to be the case is that Apple is somehow vibecoding company-wide.

100% agree

engineer_223• 3 months ago

Risk of embarrassment is too great to be vibe coding, apple's brand is TRUST and people don't trust AI... A slip like this erodes their brand

skeledrew2• 3 months ago

What is guaranteed NOT to be the case is that Apple is somehow vibecoding company-wide. Old-school engineering is too important for Apple.

You say this with such confidence. Do you have some inside source with enough access that you can be that certain?

nailer• 3 months ago

Original link: https://x.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551?s=20

MattRix2• 3 months ago

no thanks

embedding-shape• 3 months ago

I don't think you need to even see any files to realize much of Apple's software is vibe-coded by now.

Had some issues with my monitor apparently seeing connection to my Mac Mini, but the Mac Mini displaying black, apparently somehow got out of sync with my monitor, sleeping the display controller then waking it solved it.

Gathered a bunch of data, wanting to submit a report, since I'm a Apple Developer Program member since like two days ago, and I wanna be a good c̶u̶s̶t̶o̶m̶e̶r̶ user, so I opened up Feedback Assistant.

It asks me for my email, I input it, press enter. A password input appears, but keyboard focus doesn't move there automatically. I know is such a tiny nitpick practically, but tiny shit like this makes it so obvious that not a single person actually tried this UX. 10-15 years ago, Apple would never release something that isn't perfect, but now there are these UX edges absolutely everywhere across the OS.

I ended up not logging in at all, wrote my fix into a tiny fix-display.swift file which I'll run when it happens instead.

SparkyMcUnicorn• 3 months ago

I don't think we get to blame these issues on "vibe coding", they've been around for too long.

MattRix2• 3 months ago

This stuff has been happening in Apple software since well before the AI coding stuff came along.

suyavuz• 3 months ago

People become so lazy after ai. Even they don't check what they commit.

Cthulhu_6• 3 months ago

Anything that goes to production should have a 4-6+ eyes rule, at least one reviewer that can review the changes in isolation.

If tools or LLMs can help them with it then that's fine, but it should always be at least two humans involved, one making changes, one verifying, and if something like this happens, they're both culpable. Not that they should be blamed for it per se, but the process and their way of working should be reviewed.

doctorwho42• 3 months ago

The problem is that humans inherently fill in data in what the process from the world.

Our brain is designed to fill in gaps, it's why memory is so blurry when it comes to reciting the facts of what we saw in a trial.

It's why you could swear you saw "x" in the production software you were about to push. But it really comes down to expectations - and those expectations help reduce cognitive load/increase cognitive efficiency (resource usage).

So after more and more people get used using AI, you will see these mistakes occur more frequently. B/c it's how our brains work.

dawnerd3• 3 months ago

I cringe whenever someone suggests to just have an agent review because “it knows code better”. An ai agent wouldn’t catch a lot of things a human would flag. And before someone goes you just need to prompt it better, that’s a huge amount of work for large projects and you’re still essentially begging it to do what you want.

sharts2• 3 months ago

Thu don’t check because the expectations are now to commit and merge often coming from higher ups.

stronglikedan3• 3 months ago

it's even worse than that - people no longer know how to check what they commit, and often they don't even know what to check for. naive people are being placed into positions that they are completely ignorant about.

rib3ye3• 3 months ago

Are we going to keep on brow-beating vibe coders from here?

bigyabai2• 3 months ago

Sure, if they push garbage updates like Liquid Glass to billions of customers.

rib3ye3• 3 months ago

You think THAT was the vibe coded feature?

ryandrake2• 3 months ago

I wouldn't even think that CLAUDE.md would make it into source control, let alone into the product. I don't AI-code for a living, so I don't know what is considered best practices, but I would think that CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, REQUIREMETNS.md, MY_PLAN.md, THIS_STUFF.md, THAT_THING.md, all the instruction/feeder files that drive the AI should not go into source control. Only the actual code that gets compiled.

I look at all those files the same way as IDE configuration cruft--it's workstation-specific configuration that shouldn't even go into source control. I would .gitignore all of those files. Is this not what is done in industry?

EDIT: Wow, thanks for all the replies. Very eye-opening to see what's happening outside of my hobby-experimentation with the technology. I was coming at it with the assumption that 1-2 out of 20 people on the team were using CLAUDE.md, so why have it in source control. But if all 20 people are using it, I can see the benefits. This reply chain has really opened my eyes, thank you HN.

stevarino• 3 months ago

I personally don't have strong experience here , but I would treat them similar to BUILD files and the like - probably in the root directory of a repo but nowhere near the bin/ or build/ directories.

Also it looks like there's a compilation step to these files, which is interesting. The raw file was included, not the environment specific file.

pbronez• 3 months ago

I think it’s more like project-wide code style rules or build instructions.

Wowfunhappy6• 3 months ago

I think it makes sense to include in source control, just as it’s pretty typical to include documentation (such as a readme file) in source control. CLAUDE.md is really just project documentation.

comboy2• 3 months ago

methinks if you really want to have it versioned it should be AGENTS.md in VCS and your globally gitignored CLAUDE.md just @AGENTS.md

otherwise it's like leaving vim dotfiles in the repo or something

data-ottawa• 3 months ago

I’ve always struggled with what should be in Claude.md that doesn’t belong in readme.md or a similar supporting file.

I tend to include a well documented justfile, so between the readme and that common commands are covered. If there’s a style guide it should be its own file, or summarized in the readme.

If Claude is making errors I tend to just update my global Claude file, but I haven’t updated it in 6 months — only to disable Claude signatures on generated commit messages.

cryptoz• 3 months ago

Agent instruction files are code, though. And none of this is really workstation-specific, it is codebase-specific. Should each developer keep a nearly identical copy of CLAUDE.md? The instructions really aren't for a developer, they are for an LLM agent. In most cases (I'd imagine, anyway) the agentic instruction files must be in source control for them to even provide much value.

vpribish• 3 months ago

Nah. That’s not how it looks once you start working with it. Its code-equivalent for sure. You probably would not keep your plan files or the working chats though.

tantalor• 3 months ago

No.

Version control everything (inputs)

comboy2• 3 months ago

I agree. The intent is sacred. This should be the default and CLIs should make use of the available history (while preserving inputs you need to preserve outputs too because context matters).

The idea of having to repeat something to your computer is ridiculous.

shermantanktop• 3 months ago

If your coworker needs to make a change, those md files can capture a lot of elements of design intent and known gotchas that are otherwise latent or implicit. That’s kind of what comments are for, to say nothing of blindingly obvious design, but …if everyone else using the same tool, sharing a tool native file makes sense in the same way that checking an IDE workspace file can.

sdeframond• 3 months ago

Only the actual code that gets compiled.

And tests, linter configuration, doc...

noirscape• 3 months ago

To be fair, most IDEs will usually try to commit their own workspace configurations to a git repo unless you tell them off with a .gitignore. They tend to also exclude themselves from gitignore presets for much the same reason.

VS Code is one notorious offender in that realm; it will try to commit settings.json, even if their gitignore's are set up to ignore all other cruft.

In general, the question of what should go in the source folder is a bit of a mess. Source code, README and License make enough sense, but what about files describing project governance or CI configuration logic? Or what about files that are used to make the forge you're using render the repository in a certain way (for example: bug tracker templates). Those are all cruft insofar that they have nothing to do with code, but it's generally agreed on that you're supposed to commit those, maybe in a dot-folder if necessary.

MithrilTuxedo• 3 months ago

IntelliJ's .idea/ folder has its own .gitignore and Copilot expects to find things committed under a .github/ folder.

I used to be a purist about IDE configurations, but if everyone isn't on the same page about formatting and stuff like that you see a lot of file churn as things move around.

I would have said the same thing about the .github/ folder, but I've had to add things to it to prevent Copilot from thinking bad patterns in existing code are actually good patterns that should be repeated.

It makes more sense when your communication between teammates is constrained to the repository, because your other communication channels are already saturated. They're meta concerns that really have nowhere to go outside the repository without getting lost.

cosmotic• 3 months ago

.idea was designed to be added to source control. It doesnt have to be, but everyone on the team using the same project configuration has its advantages. Code style can be checked in too, reducing or preventing the churn you speak of.

larusso• 3 months ago

Other GitHub metadata goes into the .github folder as well. And that is expected to be commuted. Like action workflows/actions and CodeOwners Pull and issue templates etc.

CivBase• 3 months ago

but if everyone isn't on the same page about formatting and stuff like that you see a lot of file churn as things move around.

IMO that is what automated static analysis jobs are for. Let me configure my IDE how I want.

moregrist• 3 months ago

They shouldn’t make it into the product/build, but if you think about them as documentation, it makes sense to version control them.

They often describe:

- Overall architecture

- Repository layout

- Processes to use

- Things not to do: code styles to avoid, libraries to not use, etc.

While they’re primarily documenting these things for an agent, the information is similarly useful to a human.

morkalork• 3 months ago

Yeah, having one that's consistent across team members is 100% better than everyone having their own each with their own quirks

crdrost• 3 months ago

That's like 10% of the reason why people would commit CLAUDE.md…

The number one reason is, you are on a 10-dev tea and it just doesn't make sense for everyone to waste their token budget creating separate instances of this file, which an also requires ingesting the othe whole repo... That is 50, 60%.

The other bit is that you have a review pipeline hooked into CI/CD, and it is the easiest way to tell the bot how to review your code.

AntiUSAbah• 3 months ago

Our Team Claude file is the same. It has our team conventions in it etc.

Its critical that its part of the source code.

kowbell• 3 months ago

In my personal and professional experience CLAUDE.md will be set up with workspace/project specific info that any agent on anyone's computer needs to know: * what the repo actually is ("this is a rust application that does XYZ", "this is a internal tooling platform") * how it's structured so the agent knows where to look * code and review standards * rules ("don't automatically run formatters/linters", "don't touch dependencies")

rektomatic• 3 months ago

You're describing project-level shared resources, there are local versions of that like CLAUDE.local.md which should be gitignored

filoeleven• 3 months ago

How will you understand the garbage out without keeping track of the garbage in?

cortesoft• 3 months ago

It is super valuable to have your agent files in version control, both because it is useful to be able to revert to previous state and have your AI know where you are, and because being able to freshly clone a repo and have your AI know everything is very helpful.

enraged_camel• 3 months ago

In addition, it ensures the team's AI agents are using the same instructions.

allenu• 3 months ago

I can see it happening. It's very easy to drag and drop a file into an Xcode project and when the dialog pops up asking if you want it to be added to the target app bundle you just hit OK, not realizing what you just did. I've done it before with a document file but caught it before I shipped by inspecting the app bundle output.

theshrike793• 3 months ago

CLAUDE.md is project-specific. It's intended to be there so that anyone working on the project with agentic tools gets the best possible experience.

If you want private stuff you use CLAUDE.local.md

Wowfunhappy6• 3 months ago

Does anyone have a copy of the files? It would be interesting to see!

mcrk• 3 months ago

Cloude Code has cascading rules for md files.

You can include project/team based md files in your repo and exclude env/system md files (eg from you home directory, which includes your personal coding instructions).

So yeah.. nothingburger.

giancarlostoro2• 3 months ago

Considering that XCode supports using Claude directly, I'm not surprised to a degree. I'm more surprised it was not blocked out by whatever build tooling they use.

zombot2• 3 months ago

After the AI blitz it's amateur hour everywhere.

giancarlostoro2• 3 months ago

A claude.md file is not really that terrible imho.

johnwheeler• 3 months ago

All the AI hate... Of course they use Claude. What do you think? They're idiots? They use computers too...

oefrha• 3 months ago

I use Claude. Somehow CLAUDE.md hasn’t ended up in any of our company’s production artifacts yet. Am I a genius?

danaw• 3 months ago

funny claude let this file through to production, i thought it was safe to rely on llms for everything now? /s

dqh3• 3 months ago

I’ve been wondering if vibe coding was responsible for the recent introduction of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) bugs in FaceTime (muting and unmuting the microphone appears to temporarily fix it). Apple has always had excellent AEC in my experience, it’s sad to see them breaking a fundamental phone function.

elicash2• 3 months ago

It could also be the problem was that they tried to code it themselves instead of letting a computer do it.

Like doing long division by hand instead of trusting a calculator.

kjkjadksj• 3 months ago

Well, at least the calculator is deterministic.

dqh3• 3 months ago

It worked perfectly for a long before Claude and friends existed, so I don't think it follows that not using these tools has led to the problem now.

da02• 3 months ago

What would you buy if you were Apple and there were post-bubble/fire-sale prices on equipment and/or companies?

stronglikedan3• 3 months ago

They say what happened, but they don't say what is the impact for us naive folks. It doesn't look like sensitive data or IP. What's the big deal?

akmarinov• 3 months ago

It’s not a big deal, just embarrassing, something that you wouldn’t expect from a tech giant worth trillions.

zombot2• 3 months ago

If that's the backdoor that gets Apple to accidentally write documentation again, I'm all for it.

nottorp• 3 months ago

So the low contrast UI was designed by Claude?

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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