Quoting John Gruber

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.'

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 funnily enough, I only deleted it last week after realising it was 800mb, which is stupid : “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” And my favourite, on Meta https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/02/orosz-meta-engineering-culture rolls eyes : “Meta has always been a bad company. Now it seems like a bad company that’s lost its fucking mind.” Thanks for reading this post via RSS 👏