Beyond the Back Button: Mastering State-Driven Navigation for AI Workflows in SwiftUI

Building an AI-powered app isn't like building a standard CRUD application. In a traditional app, navigation is linear: you tap a button, you push a view, you go back. But AI is different. It’s asynchronous, it’s non-linear, and it’s often unpredictable. If you’re still using imperative navigationController.pushViewController logic to handle multi-step AI processes—like generating images, streaming LLM tokens, or processing documents—your architecture is likely on the verge of collapsing under i