Mike Krieger
Works in Anthropic Labs; co-founder of Instagram, and Anthropic's chief product officer from 2024 to 2026.
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Their wordsAnd I think all that's happened now is that because we can move faster, that role is like you have to be operationally excellent in that role in a way that like even beyond what you had to be before. But it definitely has not gone away.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 3rd of 19 in this recording
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Their wordsif you're recruiting for a team and you need people to wear these hats, this hat is increasingly important.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 4th of 19 in this recording
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Their wordsI don't think claude is a convenor yet.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 5th of 19 in this recording
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Their wordseverything a human could do an agent should be able to do as well and very few products actually get this right.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 10th of 19 in this recording
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Their wordsI think the next stage that I've been thinking about a lot is when the interfaces actually become something that is malleable by the agent too.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 11th of 19 in this recording
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Their wordsI think a lot of it is really building the right primitives into the product that almost like an infrastructural layer
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 12th of 19 in this recording
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Their wordswe see it as a win in labs if what you did was all if all your project did is show that the models aren't ready for it yet but you're able to now like externalize that as an eval
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 15th of 19 in this recording
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You need to build early with AI to have any intuition for when the models become capable.
Their wordsI think you need you need to build early so that you can even have that intuition.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 16th of 19 in this recording
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Their wordsthere's a very strong power law in tab usage.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 18th of 19 in this recording
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Their wordshalf of the job is saying no to another thing in the sidebar or another tab or another thing and figuring out Can this be rolled in once we've proven it out but not killing it so early.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 19th of 19 in this recording
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