Practical Agents with Donny Wall
Donny Wals returns to talk through a year of agentic coding. We go through how it's changed his architecture decisions, reviewing PRs he didn't write himself, managing tasks and context across parallel agents, and the gym-workout crash he fixed from his phone mid-set — plus where he still doesn't trust the agent: SwiftData migrations.
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- Cursor - https://cursor.com
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- Raycast - https://raycast.com
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- Maxine - One Rep Max Tracker (Donny's workout app) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maxine-one-rep-max-tracker/id6615073254
- GRDB.swift - https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift
- SundialKit (Leo's watch communication library) - https://github.com/brightdigit/SundialKit
- Fluent (Vapor's ORM) - https://docs.vapor.codes/fluent/overview/
- NSPersistentCloudKitContainer - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coredata/nspersistentcloudkitcontainer
- Practical Core Data - https://practicalcoredata.com
- Practical Combine - https://practicalcombine.com
- Practical Swift Concurrency - https://practicalswiftconcurrency.com
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Creators and Guests
Host
Leo Dion
Swift developer for Apple devices and more; Founder of BrightDigit; husband and father of 6 adorable kids
Guest
Donny Wals 👾
iOS Engineer, blogger, and author at https://t.co/GXOvs3nr0S. Loves learning and sharing knowledge. ❤ Dorien -- #swift #ios #swiftlang #iosdev (he/him)
