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Best Practices to Produce Maintainable Code with AI - Atharva Vaidya, Portola

SF Swift<br>In this SF Swift talk, Atharva Vaidya shares practical lessons from Portola’s use of AI in a production Apple platforms codebase. He focuses on the habits and guardrails that help teams move faster without creating slop: opinionated codebase standards, scripts for repeatable workflows, targeted skills for codebase-specific patterns, specialized agents for PRs and snapshots, and a small CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md that points agents toward the right references.

The talk also covers how the team updates skills when agents make mistakes, reviews AI-written code, manages parallel agent workflows, and uses AI to respond more quickly to bugs and user feedback while keeping quality high.

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