Use of GenAI in OUDS and Swift contexts

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Context

Today, with the increasing use of Generative AI (GenAI), there are more and more Large Language Models (LLM) provided by third-party tools, integrated or not in IDE or software forges.
It could be interesting to gather here the pros and cons of the use of GenAI as maintainers of OUDS or users of OUDS.
Indeed, GenAI has a non nul environmental footprint, but it can increase the velocity of a team or helps maintainers our new contributors.

Questions

• How to define the balance?
• How much is it useful?
• What are the limits?

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Document the use of GenAI

For example, as explained in the DEVELOP and CONTRIBUTING files, we should mention the use of the product and the LLM if GenAI has been used significantly .

For example:

Assisted-by: Claude 3.7 Sonnet (GitHub Copilot)

In addition, if agentic AI has been used to review or generate source code, and bevause there are bots behind, we mention it in the commits.

For example:

Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>

and also:

Reviewed-by: Copilot <[email protected]>

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Examples of use of AI to create

Could be nice to list examples of usage of GenAI or Agentic AI with pros and cons

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Experiments for the navigation bar

Note

Open AI Codex was used with the ChatGP Codex Connector for GitHub and behind a ChatGPT Plus account
And also GitHub Copilot agent

• Issue: Add navigation bar / toolbar top / toolbar bottom components #1174
• Pull request from GitHub Copilot: Add OUDS navigation toolbars (top/bottom) with DSL items and docs #1260
• Pull request from OpenAI Codex: Add top & bottom toolbar components (OUDSToolBarTop / OUDSToolBarBottom) and docs #1261

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Fix a bug with animations

Note

Open AI Codex was used with the ChatGP Codex Connector for GitHub and behind a ChatGPT Plus account

• Issue: [Bug] Switch component always animated even if a11y feature about animation disabling is used #660
• In details this comment: [Bug] Switch component always animated even if a11y feature about animation disabling is used #660 (comment)
• Pull request: Handle reduced motion for switch animations #1253

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Python scripting to look for dead tokens

Note

Open AI Codex was used with the ChatGP Codex Connector for GitHub and behind a ChatGPT Plus account

• Issue: Define tool to look for dead / unused tokens to remvoe #1237
• Pull request: Improve unused token script logging #1239

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Add tests with new API of Swift Testing

Note

Open AI Codex was used with the ChatGP Codex Connector for GitHub and behind a ChatGPT Plus account

• Issue: Use of #expect(processExitsWith:) in Swift Testing test cases #1255
• Pull request: Add Swift Testing crash tests using #expect(exitsWith:) #1258

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Examples of uses of AI to review

Could be nice to list examples of usage of GenAI or Agentic AI with pros and cons

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Review a small PR for full width button

Note

Open AI Codex was used with the ChatGP Codex Connector for GitHub and behind a ChatGPT Plus account

• Pull request: [#1252] Add flag to let button takes the screen full width #1257

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Review a small PR for dependency update

Note

Open AI Codex was used with the ChatGP Codex Connector for GitHub and behind a ChatGPT Plus account

• Pull request: chore(deps): update dependency ruby to v4 #1234

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Review a small PR for API cleanup update

Note

Open AI Codex was used with the ChatGP Codex Connector for GitHub and behind a ChatGPT Plus account

• Pull request: [#1233] status and size properties of badge component not used #1236

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Review of implementation of bullet list component

Note

GitHub Copilot agent was used

• Pull request: [#513] Add Bullet List component #1279
• Pull request: [#513] Add Bullet List component ouds-ios-design-system-toolbox#182

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Review of localizables

Note

GitHub Copilot agent was used

• Pull request: [#46] [#53] Add support for more locales, fix hard-coded title of webview accessibility-statement-lib-ios#55

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Examples of use of AI to think about topics

Without or without success...

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Replace #Peview of Xcode

Note

GitHub Copilot agent was used

• Pull request: Add #OUDSPreview Swift macro to replace #Preview with OUDS theme support #1267

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Find attribute graph cycle

Note

GitHub Copilot agent was used

• Pull request: Fix AttributeGraph cycle in OUDSColoredSurfaceModifier preventing color scheme changes #1272

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Xcode 26 with Apple Intelligence and MCP

See for example: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111428/

To be defined