Merge Conflict
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540: Siri AI SDK: Finally Making App Integration Work
540: Siri AI SDK: Finally Making App Integration Work
About this podcast
Merge Conflict is a weekly discussion with Frank and James on all things development, technology, & more. After years of being friends, Frank and James finally decided to sit down and start a podcast about their lives as mobile developers using C#, Xamarin, and .NET MAUI. Much more than just another mobile development podcast, Merge Conflict, reaches all areas of development including desktop, server, and of course mobile. They also cover fun things happening in the world of technology and gaming and whatever else happens to be on Frank's and James' minds.
Episodes
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- 540: Siri AI SDK: Finally Making App Integration Work · 49 minJames and Frank dive into episode 540's lightning topics, exploring Apple's new Siri AI SDK that finally brings proper agentic app integration, Frank's smooth experience adding…
- 539: Everything from GitHub Universe 2026 · 54 minGitHub Universe’s big theme is bringing AI agents under one roof: James and Frank unpack a shared Copilot harness, sessions that sync across devices and cloud workspaces, and…
- 538: AI Agents Rebuild My 13-Year-Old Blog · 56 minJames shares how Copilot CLI helped rebuild 13 years of blog posts as a faster, customizable static site—and how AI can turn spoken ideas into polished posts and launch videos…
- 537: Going ULTRA with RTX Spark and New Surface Devices · 57 minMicrosoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra pairs an ARM chip with NVIDIA RTX graphics and unified memory, promising workstation-class power for creators and local AI—at a premium…
- 536: Decisions, Microsoft-Decision-1, Decisions · 40 minThis week we look at decision models, which have gone from a novelty to something every AI lab is now building. We start with a practical detour: where do you actually sell a…
- 535: Next-Gen Siri: Disappointingly Not the Chatbot We Wanted · 47 minJames and Frank explore Apple's next-gen Siri and iOS 27 updates with mixed results—the chatbot fell short of expectations despite hype. They dive into AI agents, smart home…
- 534: Why Developers Are Obsessed with Budget LLMs (Jev, Luna, & more) · 40 minDiscover the emerging classifier revolution with Jev—a radical new take on LLMs that ditches generation for lightning-fast categorization. Plus, deep dives into the latest model…
- 533: iPhone Duo Development: Navigating Dual Screens and Layouts · 45 minApple's new iPhone Duo promises a game-changing foldable experience, but developers face a minefield of technical challenges. James and Frank break down the critical app…
- 532: HydraFusion: Multi-Model Orchestration Changes Everything · 43 minIn this week's episode, James and Frank dive deep into how their approach to working with AI models has fundamentally shifted over the past few months. We explore a game-changing…
- 531: How AI Saved Our Lost Podcast Recording · 38 minIn Episode 531 James and Frank recount a near‑disastrous data loss when local recordings died seven minutes in, forcing them to rely on Zencastr's cloud-recovery button and a…
- 530: WinUI Goes Open Source & Mac Mini/Studio Upgrades! · 1 h 5 minThis episode kicks off with WinUI’s shift to open‑source‑first—what the GitHub‑centric workflow means for Windows devs—and James and Frank’s hands‑on tales modernizing apps…
- 529: Agent, MCP, and Tooling: Taming Cross‑Platform DevFlows · 43 minIn this update-packed episode James and Frank dive into developer tooling: the VS Code Mobile Canvas that embeds emulators into your editor, MAUI DevFlow’s rewrite enabling plain…
- 528: Build, Ship, Repeat: AI Tools Changing App Development · 40 minIn episode 528 James and Frank riff on software updates, AI-powered documentation and rapid app-building—covering a WebAssembly Oh My Posh demo, a LocalMorph/FFmpeg bridge, and…
- 527: AI Agents Meet Mobile: GitHub Copilot Canvas Revolution · 50 minAI agents are revolutionizing mobile development! James and Frank explore GitHub's new Mobile Canvas extension that lets AI agents see and interact with iOS and Android apps in…
- 526: GitHub Stacked PRs: Managing Complex Code Changes · 43 minIn this episode, James and Frank dive deep into GitHub's biggest release in years: Stacked Pull Requests. Learn how this long-awaited feature finally solves the challenge of…
- 525: Why Christopher Nolan's IMAX Vision is Fading · 39 minIn this episode, James and Frank explore the bittersweet reality of experiencing cinema in 2026, starting with Frank's disappointing discovery that Seattle's Pacific Science…
- 524: A .NET MAUI AI Revolution · 38 minOn episode 524 James and Frank dive into the new .NET MAUI developer stack—covering the MAUI CLI/Maui Doctor that auto-provisions SDKs and emulators, the Maui Sherpa GUI for…
- 523: UI.md - Opinionated design rules for coding agents · 46 minFrank releases UI.md, a practical markdown guide distilled from 25 years of software development that captures essential UI/UX principles to help AI (and developers) build better…
- 522: Our Thoughts on Slate: The $25K Modular Pickup Changing EVs · 37 minJames and Frank dig into Slate’s modular electric pickup — a $24,950, 205‑mile, no-frills truck you can customize later — and unpack how factory vs dealer options, aftermarket…
- 521: Polish Matters: UI, Icons, and AI Design Fails · 48 minEpisode 521 James and Frank obsess over “polish”: the tiny design and packaging details that make apps feel finished. They start with impeccable.style, product.md and design.md…
- 520: Inside the New GitHub Copilot App: Sessions, Canvases, Automations · 58 minThis episode dives into the new GitHub Copilot app — a hub for agent sessions, multi‑repo orchestration, PR‑first workflows, automations and the new canvas metaphor for triage…
- 519: WWDC Deep Dive: Apple’s New AI for Developers · 52 minJames and Frank break down WWDC’s developer-focused news—from Apple’s AI push (local models, a new private cloud for foundation models, and a command‑line API) to Xcode’s new…
- 518: Windows is Back! New Microsoft AI Coding Models · 47 minMicrosoft Build 2026 brought a major shift: homegrown AI models designed for efficiency and real-world developer workflows. From the cost-effective MAI Code 1 Flash to sandboxed…
- 517: Plan First, Think Less: Save Tokens, Improve Code · 35 minEpisode 517 starts with a light chat about AI avatars and new text‑to‑speech deepfakes before diving into LLM “thinking” modes—what baked‑in planning actually does, why it…
- 516: Evolving Agent Session Management · 43 minJames and Frank unpack AI-driven development shifts—agent SDKs, session management, and the rise of agent-first UIs like Google’s anti-gravity and GitHub Copilot—showing how VS…
- 515: Mini-LED, IPS, and the Great Monitor Rabbit Hole · 44 minJames and Frank share thrift‑store monitor triumphs (and a retro Wii audio nightmare) before diving into a no‑nonsense guide to buying displays: what ports, VESA mounts, and…
- 514: Running Local LLMs in VS Code · 56 minIn this episode James and Frank dive into running AI coding models locally versus in the cloud—BYOK/Open Router, VS Code’s chat/agent harness, model runners (Olama, vLLM), and…
- 513: Agents Over Chat: The Future of Developer Workflows · 58 minJames and Frank explore the future of developer workflows powered by AI agents, revealing how developers are shifting from coders to testers and product strategists. They dive…
- 512: Does Matter Really Matter? · 37 minAfter a quick round of Apple dev updates, James and Frank dive into Matter — why Frank went from skeptic to devotee and why it’s poised to fix IoT chaos. They break down how…
- 511: Terminals, Remote Sessions, No More Watches! · 50 minIn episode 511 James and Frank dig into audio gear (why impedance matters and the pros/cons of hardware DSP and headphone high‑power modes), explore GitHub Copilot CLI's new…
- 510: AI Agents: Claws, Copilot, GUI vs CLI Debate · 47 minJames and Frank dig into the messy world of AI agents—Claudes, Copilots, “claws”—and why now is the wrong time to over-box these tools. They debate GUI vs. CLI futures, explain…
- 509: How AI Fleets Fixed 31 Issues in Two Days · 42 minIn this episode Frank and James riff on everything from accidental source‑map leaks (yes, even Apple slips up) to using Copilot and multi‑agent AI workflows to triage issues…
- 508: Agentic Workflows - Markdown Automation for GitHub Actions · 40 minAt MVP Summit we dig into Agentic Workflows — write Markdown prompts that drive AI agents to run CI, open PRs, and automate cross‑repo tasks — and MAUI DevFlow, which lets agents…
- 507: iCircuit UI Roast: Toolbar, Popovers, and Polish · 43 minIn Episode 507 James grills Frank about UI choices in his iCircuit app—crowded toolbars, popover behavior on iPhone vs iPad, and flaky TestFlight/App Store review timing. They…
- 506: We have no skills · 53 minJames and Frank unpack the exploding world of AI coding agents—covering instructions, MCP tools, custom agents, hooks, plugins and why “skills” matter. They walk through the new…
- 505: 8GB of RAM Isn't Good Enough #MacBookNeo · 1 h 3 minOn this episode we wade through Apple’s drip‑fed “event week,” from the budget iPhone 17E to the new MacBook Neo/Air M5 and the pricey Studio Display, and argue who each device…
- 504: 15 Years of iCircuit · 49 minFrank Kruger celebrates iCircuit’s 15‑year journey—from an iPad‑era $20 launch and surprising overnight success to the present—unpacking the tradeoffs between maintaining a…
- 503: Welcome to Tiny Tool Town · 48 minOn this episode we dive into Tiny Tool Town — a GeoCities‑style app hub for tiny developer utilities — and James walks us through building Tiny Clips, a Mac toolbar…
- 502: Rectified Flow Revolution - AI Image Generation Gets Smarter · 49 minDiscover the machine learning breakthrough changing everything: rectified flow. Frank breaks down how this revolutionary technique replaces 1,000-step diffusion with just 10…
- 501: Autopilot, Fleets, and Parallel Agents Explained · 36 minIn this episode James and Frank walk through the latest Copilot CLI power-ups—Autopilot loops, experimental Fleet/parallel agents, and Opus model/context updates—while demoing…
- 500: How Frank Builds Apps Has Changed Forever · 55 minOn our 500th episode James and Frank celebrate the milestone, reminisce about their mobile‑dev roots, and dig into how AI, the Copilot CLI/SDK and the Model Context Protocol…
- 499: Going Full Ralph, CLI, & GitHub Copilot SDK?!?! · 49 minIn episode 499 James and Frank dive into the messy, exciting world of coding agents — from burning through Copilot credits and avoiding merge conflicts to practical workflows for…
- 498: CI/CD fro Mac Apps: GitHub Actions to Notarize · 39 minThis episode opens with mic and Nintendo banter before plunging into macOS release pain points: sandboxing, hardened runtime, notarization, Sparkle auto‑updates, and automating…
- 497: Turning Machine Code into C with AI · 51 minIn this episode James and Frank dive into the practical realities of using AI in everyday development—arguing that AI shines in brownfield (existing) code because it respects…
- 496: All The Holiday Hacks · 1 h 12 minFollow Us • Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub • James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub • Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord • Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by…
- 495: 2025 Wrapped - The Official Year of AI Development · 1 h 24 minJames and Frank unwrap 2025 as the Year of AI Development, covering new models, the rise of agents, and editor integrations like Copilot in VS Code that changed how developers…
- 494: TV Evolution- CRTs, Aspect Ratios, and Beyond · 31 minDive into the fascinating world of CRT technology in this episode of How CRTs Work! Discover how these iconic monitors influenced video playback and gaming, from interlaced…
- 493: Git's most powerful but underutilized tool · 56 minIn this episode of 'Merge Conflict,' James and Frank dive into the intricacies of Git work trees, exploring how they revolutionize local machine development by allowing…
- 492: SwiftData & CloudKit Sync "Just Work" Right? [Boosted Audio] · 51 minJames and Frank break tradition by recording Merge Conflict together in person, sharing laughs about ferries, sea shanties, and their annual Seattle holiday meetup. The…
- 491: Gemini 3.0: AI's Leap in UI Design? · 51 minJoin us as James and Frank delve into the fascinating world of AI-driven UI design with Gemini 3.0, exploring its creative capabilities and potential to revolutionize aesthetics…
