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Performance Is More Than Just Speed with Artem Mirzabekian and Bogdan Poplauschi

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 2, Season 3 Performance Is More Than Just Speed Part two with Artem Mirzabekian and Bogdan Poplauschi, going underneath the abstractions: Swift Concurrency migration, the cost of the tools we use daily, and why application launch is an architecture problem. August 23, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 2, Season 3 • Part 2 of 2 · Concurrency • Abstraction • App Launch Watch the Episode The Hidden Cost of the Tools We Use Daily Part one challenged the myths. This one goes underneath them, into Swift Concurrency, abstractions, architecture, application launch, frameworks and dependencies. ...

August 23, 2026 · 3 min · Walid Sassi

Beyond the Prompt: Foundation Models as an Architectural Layer in iOS with Mohammad Azam

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 10, Season 2 Beyond the Prompt: Foundation Models as an Architectural Layer in iOS Mohammad Azam on why Apple’s on-device LLM is less an AI feature and more a redefinition of where intelligence lives in your app, @Generable, @Guide, instructions, tools, and adapter-based fine-tuning, viewed through the lens of iOS layered architecture. May 3, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 10, Season 2 · Foundation Models • On-Device LLM • iOS Architecture “Foundation Models is not a chat surface. It is a typed, on-device, structured capability you wire into your architecture, the way you wire in URLSession or SwiftData. Treat it like a chatbot and you will build bad apps. Treat it like a layer and you will build defensible ones.” ...

May 3, 2026 · 12 min · Walid Sassi