- Boris Cherny of Anthropic discussed using Claude Code to rewrite the Electron-based Claude desktop app in Swift, running continuously over two weeks.
- Cherny emphasizes that the key skill is not prompt engineering but enabling Claude to handle hard tasks and verify its own work along the way.
- John Gruber criticizes the experiment, arguing it only addresses technical issues (Electron bloat) but not the underlying poor design of the Claude app.
- Gruber notes that the current Claude Mac app is still slow and unreliable, contradicting Cherny's claim that it is now 'pretty awesome'.