Mike Krieger

21 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 19, 2025 by Alex Kantrowitz · said 7 times in 6 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Apr 19, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Former Instagram Executives Now Lead Product at OpenAI and Anthropic
“At Anthropic, it is Mike Krieger. The co-founder of Instagram. Yep. At OpenAI, it's Kevin Wheel, the former head of product, At Instagram.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 41:14 Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Opinion
Krieger: Claude plays a more fundamental role in operations than in code building
“I think the answer to your question is it's support. It's a supporting role on the sort of building side. But it's playing a much more fundamental role in terms of the actual operational side.”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 8:15 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
Oct 8, 2025 negative
Opinion
Krieger: Meta's Search Bar Chatbots Were Not Particularly Transformative
“Initial wave of, well, you know, we've got some chat bot type stuff in the search bars was like not particularly transformative.”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 35:33 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
Oct 8, 2025 neutral
Insight
Krieger: AI needs 75% to 80% human quality to actually accelerate work
“If you get to, like, 50% as good as you would have done yourself, I don't think that's good enough, and it won't speed you up. And in fact, it's like, I don't know, I could have just done this myself, and now, now, then at least I would have known what it's do…”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 12:10 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
Oct 8, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Krieger: Anthropic tracks daily visitors for utility rather than time spent
“We don't really look at engagement, at least not in the typical, like at Instagram, we spend a lot of time looking at things like time spent. Right. We do look at things like daily visitors as a proxy for a utility.”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 33:33 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Krieger: Reddit and X Communities Reveal Edge of AI Capabilities
“They're often the like power users, extreme users that are telling you something about the edge of what's possible. And then you can kind of try to generalize it more, more broadly too”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 43:31 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
Oct 8, 2025 neutral
Insight
Krieger: Massive Platforms Can Only Introduce One New Behavior Per Generation
“Once you get a service as widespread as Instagram or as widespread as Facebook or WhatsApp, it's hard to introduce a new behavior there. You know, we did it with stories. I think they've since done it with reels but it's almost like one, you get one per genera…”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 36:02 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Krieger: Anthropic is embedding engineers inside enterprise clients with Deloitte
“We're doing much more of a model now where either with our own engineers embedded in enterprises in partnership with Deloitte, which we just announced this week, can we actually like take our technology, meet companies where they like what their highest needs …”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 47:55 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krieger: Fable completed a full night of delegated engineering in one hour.
“I moved much more to before going to bed, making sure that I had, like, queued up for Fable, like, enough chunky work to last. I would call it the whole night and I would check in later and it got it done in an hour and it was like, I guess, hanging out for th…”
Mike Krieger Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 10:51 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Insight
Krieger: Anthropic Labs designs products for model capabilities expected in six months.
“The two most useful thought exercises we do in labs, one is like visualize the gap between what the models can do today and how most people use it. It can be closed that gap. That's one. And the other one is imagine what the models are bad at now that they're …”
Mike Krieger Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 15:00 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
Insight
Krieger: AI tools still place too much technical burden on everyday users.
“We're still asking people to understand way too many concepts of like, what is, you know, the difference between like my sandbox environment and production or like connected MCP as myself or others, or how should I store data?”
Mike Krieger Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 29:07 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
Jun 25, 2026
What-if
Krieger: AI would have allowed Instagram to scale with just 4-6 employees.
“I think we could have gotten there with like four to six, you know?”
Mike Krieger Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 37:22 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
Jun 25, 2026
Disclosure
Krieger: Anthropic has shelved product prototypes deemed bad for the world.
“There are certainly products that we have either prototyped or conceptualized and been like this product. It sounds so hypey. I hate this. But like this product, if shipped, would be bad for the world or like would nudge people in the wrong direction. Or even …”
Mike Krieger Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 39:36 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krieger: Environmental awareness and agency will transform Anthropic's entire product line.
“That's like theme one that I'm extremely excited about. And I think if we do it right, should actually like transform all of our products like from head to toe.”
Mike Krieger Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 28:02 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
Insight
Krieger: Initial model release reactions are unreliable without real-world workflows
“I've learned to not really trust day of or even week of model reactions. You don't really know until you've put it through its paces. And so like, I almost just, Completely block out the noise in the first couple of days of any new model release, because I don…”
Mike Krieger Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 2:22 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
Jun 26, 2026
What-if
Krieger: Instagram could have reached sale with 4 to 6 people using AI
“I think we could have gotten there with like four to six, you know?”
Mike Krieger Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 2:56:53 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krieger: Anthropic product engineering had only 25 people in 2024
“I started the labs, the original labs team with Ben Mann, who's one of the co-founders of Anthropic in my third week at Anthropic. And it had been something that I've been bubbling under. And at the time, the reason was really different. It was all of our prod…”
Mike Krieger Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 2:34:03 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026
Insight
Krieger: First-week reactions to new AI models should be ignored
“I've learned to not really trust day of or even week of model reactions. You don't really know until you've put it through its paces. And so like, I almost just completely block out the noise in the first couple of days of any new model release, because I don'…”
Mike Krieger Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 2:22:41 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026
Disclosure
Krieger: Anthropic shelved prototypes deemed potentially harmful to society
“There are certainly products that we have either prototyped or conceptualized and been like this product. It sounds so hypey. I hate this. But like this product, if shipped, would be bad for the world or like would nudge people in the wrong direction. Or even …”
Mike Krieger Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 2:59:07 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 neutral
Insight
Krieger: Anthropic Labs builds for capabilities models will gain in six months
“The two most useful thought exercises we do in labs, one is like visualize the gap between what the models can do today and how most people use it. It can be closed that gap. That's one. And the other one is imagine what the models are bad at now that they're …”
Mike Krieger Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 2:35:19 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026
What-if
Krieger: Instagram's month-long Android build would take one week with AI
“In about a month for Instagram, we could have done it probably in a week with the models”
Mike Krieger Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 2:57:19 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
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