Overview
- Apple, which multiple outlets reported Wednesday will send just under 200 Siri engineers to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp, plans to train staff to use AI coding tools.
- About 60 developers will remain on core Siri work and roughly 60 will evaluate behavior and safety to ensure commands are interpreted and executed correctly.
- The push follows slow uptake of assistants like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex inside the Siri group even as other Apple teams budgeted heavily for them and Xcode added support for agentic coding.
- Leadership changed after delays, with Craig Federighi now overseeing AI and Mike Rockwell leading Siri, and the next version is slated to run on Google’s Gemini models.
- A first look is expected at WWDC on June 8 with broader rollout tied to iOS 27 later in 2026, and details of whether Apple will run the bootcamp internally or use outside partners remain unclear.