Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
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Mike Krieger is the chief product officer of Anthropic and the co-founder of Instagram. After leaving Meta, he co-founded Artifact, an AI-powered news app that I absolutely loved, and joined Anthropic to lead product in 2024.
*In this episode, you'll learn:*
1. How Anthropic uses AI to write 90-95% of code for some products and the surprising new bottlenecks this creates
2. Why embedding product managers with AI researchers yields 10x the impact of traditional product development
3. The three areas where product teams can still add massive value as AI gets smarter
4. How Anthropic plans to compete with OpenAI long-term
5. How to use Claude as your product strategy partner (with specific prompting techniques)
6. Why Mike shut down Artifact despite loving the product, and what founders can learn from it
7. Where AI startups should build to avoid getting killed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
8. Why MCP (Model Context Protocol) might reshape how all software works
9. The counterintuitive product metrics that matter for AI
10. How to evaluate whether your company is maximizing AI’s potential or just scratching the surface
*Transcript:* https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropics-cpo-heres-what-comes-next
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*Where to find Mike Krieger:*
• X: https://x.com/mikeyk
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger/
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• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/
*In this episode, we cover:*
(00:00) Introduction to Mike Krieger
(04:25) What Mike has changed his mind about regarding AI capabilities
(07:43) How to avoid scary AI scenarios
(09:00) Skills kids will need in an AI world
(11:58) How product development changes when 90
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