Devin Gets a Mac: Building iOS and macOS Apps in the Cloud from a Prompt

Melvin Vivas · X video post · 2026-09-16 · 0:55 · 422 views · Open on X

Topics: AI Dev Tools & Productivity, AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, Industry Trends & Job Market · Level: beginner

Summary

Melvin Vivas quotes Cognition's announcement that Devin, its autonomous AI software engineer, now runs on a Mac. That lets it build, test and deploy iOS, iPadOS and macOS apps in the cloud from a single prompt. Vivas reacts by renewing his Apple developer account, which suggests he plans to try it. This is a short news item about AI coding agents expanding into native Apple app development.

Key points

• Cognition says Devin now has access to a Mac, so the agent can handle native Apple-platform development.
• Devin can build, test and deploy iOS, iPad and macOS apps in the cloud from just a prompt.
• Cognition shared 11 experiments run over one week, plus open-source code for more than 100 native apps.
• One example experiment: building and testing a multi-platform, multiplayer app.
• Shipping to Apple platforms still requires an Apple developer account, which is why the creator is renewing his.
• The post contains no spoken content. The details come from the quoted Cognition post, which is cut off in the caption.

Resources mentioned

• Devin · tool · x.com · paid
  A desktop app from the makers of the Devin coding agent for planning, delegating, reviewing and shipping work across fleets of local and cloud coding agents.
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• Apple Developer Program · website · developer.apple.com · paid
  Apple's paid developer membership, needed to put iOS apps on devices broadly and publish them to the App Store.
  Also in: One-Shotting a Flappy Bird iPhone App with Devin and GPT-6 Astra (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cognition's 'Devin now has a Mac' announcement post · article · x.com · free
  Cognition's X post describing 11 Devin experiments with native Apple apps and linking open-source code for more than 100 apps.

Try this

• Get or renew an Apple developer account if you want to deploy agent-built iOS or macOS apps.
• Read Cognition's original post for the 11 experiments and the open-source code for the 100+ example native apps.
• Use an AI coding agent like Devin to build and test a multi-platform, multiplayer app for iOS, iPad and macOS.