Garry Tan: Apple should rebuild its software teams with hundreds of codegen agents
illscience · x · 2026-11-09
Y Combinator president Garry Tan argues Apple should redo its entire software organization with engineers fully bought into the 'software factory' model: small teams plus hundreds of codegen agents could instantly fix legendarily buggy apps like TV and Calendar. Developers point to the new Claude Code Xcode plugin as an early sign of Apple's ecosystem moving this way.
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