Mike Krieger

Chief Product Officer at Anthropic

Mike Krieger is CPO at Anthropic (makers of Claude) and co-founder of Instagram, leading product at one of the most important AI companies during a period when 90% of their code is written by AI.

The Operator The Visionary

Dimension Profile

Strategic Vision 90%

Execution & Craft 85%

Data & Experimentation 55%

Growth & Distribution 60%

Team & Leadership 70%

User Empathy & Research 70%

Key Themes

AI-written code at scale product development with AI Claude Code self-improvement new bottlenecks from AI productivity Anthropic vs OpenAI strategy shutting down Artifact lessons

Episode Summary

Mike Krieger, Instagram co-founder turned Anthropic CPO, reveals that over 70% of Anthropic's pull requests are now AI-generated, creating entirely new bottlenecks around infrastructure rather than code writing. He discusses how product development fundamentally changes when AI writes most of the code, his thoughts on Anthropic vs OpenAI, and lessons from shutting down Artifact.

Leadership Principles

→ When 90% of code is AI-written, bottlenecks shift from writing to infrastructure like merge queues
→ The team using AI to build AI tools creates the most futuristic workflow
→ Custom models are essential for every magic moment in an AI product

Notable Quotes

"Over half of our pull requests are Claude Code generated. Probably at this point it's over 70%. It completely blew out expectations."
— On the reality of AI-written code at Anthropic

"We really rapidly became bottlenecked on our merge queue. We had to completely re-architect it because so much more code was being written."
— On the unexpected bottlenecks when AI dramatically increases code output

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