Apple Sends 200 Siri Engineers to Multi-Week AI Coding Bootcamp Ahead of WWDC 2026, Acknowledges Internal Skill Gap
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Apple is mandating a multi-week AI coding bootcamp for approximately 200 Siri engineers who have lagged behind other teams in adopting AI coding assistants, with some Apple divisions already allocating large budgets for Claude Code. The remaining ~60 engineers stay on the core Siri team while another 60 shift to testing. The move ahead of WWDC 2026 (June 8-12) signals that even Apple acknowledges AI coding tools have fundamentally changed how software gets built — and that resistance creates organizational debt.