AiOS Dispatch 1

Welcome to the first dispatch of AiOS Dispatch, your resource for the latest in AI, language models, IDE updates, and iOS development.

Another crazy week, like any other over the past two years.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Everyone braced for Anthropic's Claude 4 series but they ended up with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, touted as their most intelligent model yet.

Yeah, Claude 3.5 (new) x 2.

This is a hybrid model, that has faster responses compared to 3.5 and with a new “extended thinking” mode, useful for complex coding or reasoning tasks.

It passed my vibe check and I wrote about it here:

Exploring Claude: 3.7 Sonnet iOS Development

Explore the capabilities of Claude 3.7 Sonnet in iOS development, featuring improved code refactoring, SwiftUI integration, and efficient file handling. Learn how this AI model streamlines development workflows and handles complex coding tasks with remarkable accuracy and speed.

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For iOS developers, this is a great agentic model that uses a lot of tool calls over different IDEs. Also, because of the gigantic output tokens, it has a tendency to output the whole file, even if it is 1,000+ lines of file with 50 lines of changes.

The best part about this model is that it is amazing with UI generation, perfect for creating SwiftUI components out of Figma designs!

Alongside it, Anthropic introduced Claude Code, a command-line AI agent (in limited preview) that autonomously handles coding tasks like debugging and GitHub commits.

It is charged to your API key and gets expensive. I did not get a chance to try it out yet but from the buzz around X, rich developers are loving it, calling it worth the bucks.

GPT-4.5

OpenAI announced GPT-4.5 just days later, and it is their beefiest model yet, but the hype around it was...disappointing.

Pricing’s steep as anything, but backlash might force a cut soon and as more of those GPUs roll in.

For coding, it is fine—better than GPT-4o at following instructions—but it is no 3.7 Sonnet killer. I would hold on this model for a while, but note that the hallucination has significantly gone down which is something to keep in mind when the prices drop as well.

IDEs like Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code already jumped on and integrated Claude 3.7 and GPT-4.5.

AI Tool of the Week: Creatie

Creatie | Intuitive, affordable, AI-powered product design software

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Creatie (non-sponsored) can help you generate UI mockups with AI. I tried it with some ideas for an app layout, and it designed something usable as an idea. It is not replacing Figma for me but fun to experiment nonetheless.

You can use it as a reference with the UI generation ability of the latest Claude 3.7 Sonnet.

Give it a try!

Moving Forward

I kept the first dispatch short and sweet, but from next week, expect more, maybe twice a week if the AI world is moving fast (as usual).

I know it is hard to keep up with everything but I have got your back. Hit me with your feedback!

Happy vibe coding!