{"slug": "quoting-john-gruber", "title": "Quoting John Gruber", "summary": "John Gruber criticized Claude's desktop app for being 800 MB, calling it an 'inside job' and comparing its construction oversight to a hammer manufacturer overseeing a building. He also slammed Meta as 'a bad company that's lost its fucking mind.'", "body_md": "John Gruber has been dropping some bangers this week. On [Claude’s awful desktop app](https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/claudes_criminally_bad_mac_app_is_an_inside_job)\n(funnily enough, I only deleted it last week after realising it was 800mb,\nwhich is stupid):\n\n“It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world’s biggest hammer manufacturer”\n\nAnd my favourite, [on Meta](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/02/orosz-meta-engineering-culture) (rolls eyes):\n\n“Meta has always been a bad company. Now it seems like a bad company that’s lost its fucking mind.”\n\nThanks for reading this post via RSS! 👏", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-john-gruber", "canonical_source": "https://probably.co.uk/posts/quoting-john-gruber/", "published_at": "2026-07-04 18:38:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 13:45:31.644154+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["John Gruber", "Claude", "Meta"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-john-gruber", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-john-gruber.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-john-gruber.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-john-gruber.jsonld"}}