GoKawiilThe Information reports that a group of Apple engineers who are working on Siri will be sent to a “multi-week bootcamp to learn to code using AI.” Here are the details.
According to the report, a group of “less than 200” engineers out of the hundreds currently working on Siri is headed to a “multi-week bootcamp” to sharpen their AI coding skills.
From the report:
The move suggests that Apple feels that a portion of the Siri organization needs to tune up its skills to take advantage of fast-moving changes in programming. AI coding assistants such as Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex have upended the programming profession, allowing experienced software developers to produce far more code than they have in
the past.
The Information says AI coding tools have taken off in some parts of Apple, such as its software engineering organization, prompting some teams to allocate large budgets for Claude Code. This aligns with recent industry reports, including another report from The Information earlier today that said Uber has already exhausted the AI budget it originally set for all of 2026.
The report also says that the bootcamp 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, including handling commands from users and whether it’s meeting Apple’s safety standards.”
The timing, of course, is notable given the proximity to WWDC26, set for June 8. Apple is widely expected to announce the long-delayed revamped, AI-powered Siri, which, as Apple confirmed last year, will rely on Google’s Gemini models.
This move followed several missteps in Apple’s AI strategy, which in turn led to a wide-ranging reorganization of the company’s divisions and initiatives related to AI, including Apple Intelligence and Siri.
Just this week, Apple’s former AI lead, John Giannandrea, left the company after stepping down from the role in early December. In the same shakeup, Apple brought in Amar Subramanya, who spent nearly two decades at Google and briefly worked at Microsoft, to serve as the company’s VP of AI under Craig Federighi.
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