Dozens of comments, but not a single "What was in their Claude.md"

to be honest, for some reason I expected most of apple to eschew claude/ai coding.

I'm not sure why. It just doesn't feel very Apple-like

> Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple is doing internally in terms of product development, a lot of their internal tools…They have custom versions of Claude running on their own servers internally.

--Mark Gurman, Bloomberg https://x.com/tbpn/status/2016911797656367199

I really hope its not churning out massive amounts of code for osx and ios or we are in for some pretty interesting times in the next year or so.

So much FUD (and bot replies dogpiling on?) in that thread. It's just a file that specifies some structure for the project. Nothing super secret.

Unrelated:

Yuck. a lot of those replies have LLM smells. Do people love being a hollow puppet for LLMs to fill in? Have people lost their identity?

Is it really a mistake? OpenAI's own agent SDK also has a Claude.md file. That's not an indication that OpenAI internally use Claude, rather, it's there because the SDK has multi-model support.

Whilst tempting, I think it is important not to read too much into this.

It is no secret that Apple has an enormous R&D budget.

It is no secret that Apple operates with hundreds of siloed teams in order to maintain individual domain expertise. The teams then come together in a collaborative manner to bring together the final products.

So yes, it is likely true that SOME teams use SOME LLM for SOME tasks. It is a viable argument from R&D and other perspectives.

What is almost guaranteed NOT to be the case is that Apple is somehow vibecoding company-wide.

I'm sure journalists and Anthropic would love to have you believe that was the case, but I think we need to keep our feet on the ground here and accept the reality more old-school.

Afterall, as others have pointed out already here ... whilst the rest of Silicon Valley has been shoveling truckloads of cash at AI, Apple have been patiently sitting, watching the bandwagon trundle along the rails.