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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. ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 1, Season 3 Modern iOS Performance Myths Season 3 opens with a two-part conversation on performance, with Artem Mirzabekian and Bogdan Poplauschi. Part one is about the dogmas: what a fast app actually is, and why so many of them still feel slow. July 5, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 1, Season 3 • Part 1 of 2 · Performance • SwiftUI • Concurrency Watch the Episode Fast Is Not the Same as Feeling Fast An application can be technically fast and still feel slow. That gap, between what a benchmark measures and what a user perceives, is where this episode spends most of its time. ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 12, Season 2 Modern iOS Security: Attacks, Defenses & AI Dave Poirier and Deya Elkhawaldeh on iOS security as an engineering culture problem rather than a tooling one, and on what AI has already changed for the people attacking your app. May 31, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 12, Season 2 · Mobile Security • Attacker Mindset • AI Watch the Episode Why This One Matters “Apple handles security for us” is, according to both guests, the single most expensive misconception in iOS development. The platform gives you good defaults. It does not give you a threat model. ...

Cloud APIs put a frontier model behind a single HTTPS call. That convenience is hard to beat, and for most production workloads it remains the right choice. But something has shifted over the last couple of years: the gap between “what a hosted model can do” and “what a model running on your laptop can do” has narrowed enough that local inference is no longer a curiosity. For developers, especially those of us building on Apple Silicon, it has become a serious option. ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 11, Season 2 MLX Swift & On-Device AI Adrien Grondin, iOS developer at LM Studio and creator of Locally AI, on why Apple Silicon changes the economics of running language models locally, and where that stops being true. May 17, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 11, Season 2 · MLX Swift • Local LLMs • Apple Silicon Watch the Episode Why This One Matters Most teams shipping AI features today send everything to a cloud API. That works until you look at the bill, the latency, or the privacy review. Meanwhile Apple has been quietly building the other path: a framework designed from the start for unified memory on Apple Silicon. ...

A walkthrough of Anthropic’s new Claude Agents (agent view) inside Claude Code on iOS: how to run a Clean Architecture refactor agent and a unit-testing agent in parallel on isolated Git worktrees, with the full lifecycle and synchronisation pitfalls.

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.” ...