Mihaela Mihaljević

Mihaela Mihaljević

I’m Mihaela. Senior iOS architect with fifteen-plus years on Apple platforms. I build AI-powered developer tools for the Apple ecosystem.

Currently shipping Cupertino, an open-source MCP server that gives Claude and other AI assistants offline access to Apple’s developer documentation. 700+ GitHub stars, featured in iOS Dev Weekly.

Latest: Cupertino v1.1.0, my Apple docs index was 30% lies and I didn’t know. Also see Speaking and Hire me.

The Morlocks Built SwiftUI

The cynical read is that Apple kept the real tools and handed us toys. But the same engineer built Core Animation in 2007 and co-built SwiftUI in 2019, and that one fact says the opposite. On why the foundation never left, and the debt that comes due the day the abstraction breaks.

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cupertino v1.2.0: lands the right Apple doc 9 times in 10

Search-quality release. AI coding assistants now land the right Apple documentation page on the first try 9 times out of 10, up from 5 out of 10 in v1.1.0. Cross-validated on three independent corpora, zero regressions. The architecture, and what it still gets wrong, in writing.

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