Apple’s daring idea for no -code apps built with Siri – Hype of Hope?

An app that generates a modified task list differs completely from an app to play a first-person shooter. An app with which you can order a personal taxi or book a hotel room is enormously different from an app with which you can design 3D objects.

Many apps are much more than just a nice interface. Take Instacart, for example. Of course, the app has a database with products to choose from, an e-commerce component for managing purchases and invoicing, and a message interface between customers and shoppers.

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But it also has a huge infrastructure of deals with food outputs with which the inventory can be updated and deals with which his shoppers can wander the aisles of those points of sale. It has mapping and route optimization options for managing the shoppers and optimizing their experience.

Writing code is not only complex, it is multidisciplinary. At least it is for fairly large projects.

The Apple Vision

That gives you some context for today’s subject: Atmosphere coding Apps with Siri.

The great people on 9TO5MAC recently run an article, “Apple wanted people to ate Code Vision Pro apps with Siri. “The idea came from a report that describes how” Apple hopes that even people who don’t know a computer code can tell the headset, via the Siri Voice Assistant, to build an AR -app that could then be made available to others via Apple’s App Store. ”

Apparently, Apple -Execs have discussed such a function, but it has not yet been implemented.

On the one hand, the idea seems ridiculous. How often did Siri ruin it and only transcribed an SMS message to a friend? To assume that Siri can do something so complex and powerful if making an app would assume that Siri is not the fairly simplistic AI that we all know and that we love.

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But let’s assume that Apple Intelligence can eventually rise above the crushing disappointment, and that Siri eventually has AI skills on the same footing with chatgpt or Google Gemini. Then we have a starting point.

I have repeatedly demonstrated that AIS can cod. In my recent tests, Chatgpt And Gemini Pro 2.5 Press HONRUNS.

It is therefore not unrealistic to think that Apple (one day quickly?) Will have a Siri who at least works at the level of its competitors.

What would be needed to be able to do Apple atmosphere – AKA, AI code apps with Siri? We have to discuss three important factors: technology, Apple’s relationship to coding and managed expectations.

The technology is here

There is a precedent for the idea that you could describe an app in a sentence, and an AI could write it. Last week, me showed how Github Spark could build a code -analysis tool From a single sentence. Yes, the interface was ugly, and yes, I tried somewhat fruitlessly to refine it, but the fact was that an AI has made up a working app from a single sentence description.

Shortly after Chatgpt had hit the great time, I asked for it Make a full WordPress -plug -inIncluding the user interface, and it did. The plug -in was fairly simple and it cost more than one sentence, but chatgpt surprised me with his ability to get the job done.

So, although it might take some time to get it right, the technology is there to do the work.

Apple’s history with empowerment of civil developers

Apple has a long history of empowering developers, but also misunderstanding what the development entails. I know. I was there. The Apple II was the original consumer computer, not only because of the friendly shell, but because Apple contained a programming language, base, accessible to new users.

When Apple introduced the Mac, it also introduced a huge library with books with interface figures and coding guidelines, so that developers from third parties could make Mac apps that looked like Mac apps.

Apple introduced each of these products with consciousness developers, developers, developers Would stimulate hardware acceptance. After all, it is what you can do with the machines that make them worthwhile, right?

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It was Apple’s first large low-code product Revolutionary HypercardA tool with which you can draw a user interface and connect the modules with a minimum code. (I know, because I started the first company that tools built for hypercard developers and a Hypercard project for Apple.)

But there was a large decoupling within Apple. I remember that I was in the office of Hypercard’s product manager at Apple and heard him tell that no one wants to do adapted applications. Apple users do not want tailor -made, he told me.

Nevertheless, every day I spoke with school teachers, sports coaches, doctors, traders, owners of small companies and even occasionally a large budget film director and Sitcom star, all of whom wanted to build their own apps to help them get their job done.

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Other low-code tools that Apple has introduced are automator, shortcuts, playgrounds (as part of Swift) and the XCode interface builder. Apple even played with AR Creation tools such as reality composer, introduced in 2019, allowing developers to do 3D asset, animations and basic interactions without writing code.

I consider these tools as resources that enable civil developers. These people are not necessarily first developers, but are willing to learn what skills they need to do the job. Although not everyone wants to build an app, and there are a number of people who want to develop apps just because they think they can touch the empire, there are also a surprisingly large and varied group of people who want to build apps because they just want their computers to work on their behalf.

Managing expectations

This brings us to the core of all AI coding for the masses. The naive newbie wants to be able to pronounce a single line command and suddenly be at the helm of the next billion dollars.

That will never be possible, but it is completely likely that AI coding tools can help Uber developers to maintain and improve their code.

It is possible for AI tools to cod an app. We saw it with the examples of Github Spark and WordPress plugin. It is also possible to make drag-and-drop interfaces for interactive experiences. Reality Composer helped people to do that six years ago.

The real question is: what kind of app can an AI build for you? How much work are you willing to put in? How well does the AI ​​deal with iteration and step -by -step improvement?

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Until now, AIS is terrible to step by step by step. They function much better when they are asked to fully recreate something, but with a few new elements. This makes it particularly difficult to get an AI to make incremental changes without fundamentally also randomly changing between iterations.

Some projects are not practical with regard to the type of your Wish-IS-my-command coding that seems to imply atmospheric coding. Although it is possible, for example, that non-teachers or low coders are possible to build AR and VR environments, a team of highly experienced engineers is needed to build one AR experience with which spinal surgeons can cut open full of confidence and repair the spines of patients.

While we are considering the coding of atmosphere to make apps, it is important to realize that such tools work well for certain applications (especially on forms -based apps) and not so good for other types of applications, in particular the large and complex titles that drive billion dollars.

Painting the view

In Marketing, the term “Paint the Vista” refers to the practice of presenting a marketing message that is so lively that it creates a mental image, so that both the essence of what you are trying to sell and the imagination of your prospects records. The practice often exaggerates the actual experience of using the product, but resonates with prospects and helps to stimulate sales.

So, is it stupid to expect people to be able to sifen Code Pro apps with Siri? That is a serious painting by Vista, I’ll tell you.

First, Vision Pro sales is struggling. For those who need the device, it would be better if they could build their own applications, because the device did not sold enough to justify the development effort of a more commercial coding store.

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Secondly, Siri still needs a lot of work before most of us trust that it will send a text properly.

But is LOW code, supported by AI, atmospheric code-like application development for AR and VR experiences part of a possible future? Heck yes! Nothing is impossible. The technology is already there (just not in Apple Intelligence). The rest is a matter of step -by -step improvement, finding out what works and needs help, and then wait until that is implemented.

Bottom Line

Just keep your expectations under control. Get to know the tools, for which they work well and where they run against a wall. Although I doubt whether Apple would approve a lot of amateur-coded VR apps for the App Store, there will undoubtedly be great work of people who do not cod for a living, and we can see some great works.

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Bottom Line: AI atmosphere that codes a Vision Pro Ai app with Siri is not an unrealistic expectation. But it needs some work before we arrive there, and you have to keep expectations under control.

What do you think? Could you see yourself build an app by describing it to Siri? Have you tried a low code or no-code tools such as Hypercard, shortcuts or reality composer? Do you think Apple is on the right track with this vision, or do we just paint the Vista a bit too lively? Let us know in the comments below.

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