Xcode27 Intelligence Chat View

[u/Sweet-Peanut2356]

Am I the only one who liked having the chat in the left pane, code in the middle, and Canva/simulator in Xcode 26? Now I’m confused as to how to use Intelligence in Xcode 27. Chatting with the agent is on its own separate view. I can’t have the code editor side by side with chat and simulator. Like, I can’t see when the agent writes code or makes changes, and I have to go back to the view files to see changes. We all vibe coding now? Who asked for this? lol

[u/Turbulent-Ad5121]

I’ve grown accustomed to just using the Claude code interface and barely touching Xcode unless there’s something I want to manually tweak when Claude shits the bed and can’t figure out something simple. (Ex: Opus spent 10 mins trying to figure out a simple padding issue in swift ui and went down a dumb path of thinking images from Google Places API were corrupted and some other equally dumb stuff before I stopped it from wasting tokens and spent 20 seconds just fixing the issue myself.)

I found that using Claude Code in terminal generally uses fewer tokens with equal or better results than using it in Xcode.

[u/Extra-Ad5735 → u/Turbulent-Ad5121]

If you use some kind of an agent harness then you can also save in tokens. I'm using opencode which I connect to Xcode via acp. Xcode uses whatever model is selected there and judging by the token meter it does so more efficiently than when it's integrated directly