Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Thursday, April 16th, 2026.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

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Leading off the day, the information reports that a group of Apple engineers who are working on Siri

will be sent to a, quote, multi-week boot camp to learn to code using AI.

According to the story, a group of less than 200 engineers out of the hundreds currently working on Siri is headed to this boot camp to sharpen their skills.

The move suggests Apple feels that a portion of the Siri organization needs to

tune up its skills to take advantage of fast-moving changes in programming. This, of course,

comes as AI coding assistants, such as Anthropics Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, have upended

the programming profession. The report says that AI coding tools

have already gained traction in some parts of Apple, such as its software engineering organization,

prompting some teams to allocate larger budgets for Claude Code. This aligns with recent

industry reports too, including a recent report that said Uber had

already exhausted its entire AI budget it's set for 2026. The information says that the boot camp will

leave around 60 members of the core Siri development team, adding that an additional 60 will work

in a group that evaluates how

Siri is performing and handling commands from users and determining whether it's meeting Apple's

safety standards. The timing, of course, is notable given that WWDC is less than two months away,

and that's where Apple is widely expected to announce the long, delayed, revamped

version of its voice assistant. And as for the Siri AI boot camp, it's unclear what form it

will take, including whether Apple will run it internally, or work with outside partners,

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