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Krieger: Top token users do not correlate with top performers
“We found that there's not a lot of correlation between
[10288] Mike Krieger: Like the person who's using the most tokens and like the person that I like, it's an interesting thought. I just made you at your companies like write down your 10 most productive peo…”
Krieger: Anthropic found little correlation between employee token usage and actual productivity.
“We found that there's not a lot of correlation between
Like the person who's using the most tokens and like the person that I like, it's an interesting thought.
I just made you at your companies like write down your 10 most productive people that you think a…”
Krieger: Anthropic dynamic workflows autonomously converted hundreds of thousands of lines of code
“We have a feature called dynamic workflows where you can have it like also break down the task into like a lot of subtasks. And I trusted it to sort of not just do the individual action, but here's like a whole language conversion of millions of hundreds of th…”
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…”
Krieger: Fable autonomously converted hundreds of thousands of Python lines to TypeScript.
“And I trusted it to sort of not just do the individual action, but here's like a whole language conversion of millions of hundreds of thousands of lines of code at that point. Go off and do it, go plan it, go execute it, go verify the work, double verify the w…”
Krieger: Early prototype of Claude's computer use feature accidentally deleted user files.
“And then also out of that first incarnation came computer use. Computer use was different, though, because when we built it was really bad. Like we tried a bunch of products with it, and this was around, you know, Sonic three five and be like, Claude, can you …”
Krieger: Claude Sonnet 4.5 beats Opus across categories at one-fifth the cost
“So, 4.5 sine 4.5 basically outdoes Opus, our largest model in effectively every category, but does so while running faster and at a fifth the cost. So if you think about where we were in May at, you know, code with Claude, we were announcing, announcing Opus f…”
Krieger: In the long run, AI products will probably replace more work
“In the long run, like overall, these products like might not, or probably will be doing more sort of automation or even replacement of work.”
Krieger: AI era will foster more small companies over monolithic firms
“I still think there's like a tremendous amount of economic opportunity throughout. It just might be, you know, more smaller companies rather than fewer, bigger monolithic companies.”
Krieger: Anthropic trained native memory directly into Claude rather than external wrappers
“Rather than treat it as a sort of substitute for how the model might otherwise access information or sort of a system built on top of the model, we actually have trained it deeply into the model. And so the model knows about the concept of memory, which I know…”
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.”
Krieger: Sonnet 4 to 4.5 gains stemmed largely from post-training engineering
“I think if I pointed at something between Sonnet four and four or five, a lot of it really has been on the engineering side to just be able to scale up especially a lot of the post-training work.”
Krieger: An Anthropic customer ran Claude 4.5 agentically for 30 hours
“We had one customer had it work for 30 hours. Of course, that's not going to be every task, but like, that's the kind of upper bound that we're starting to see.”
Krieger: Knowledge workers will become AI managers rather than users
“I think people end up feeling more like managers of AI than just users of AI.”
Krieger: Top Anthropic engineers manage 3-4 Claude Code instances simultaneously
“Our best engineers are managing three or four cloud code instances running at once.”
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…”
Anthropic assesses biological risk by measuring capability uplift for lay users
“So if you look at our model cards, for example, one of the ways we look at risk in the bio domain is comparing the uplift from sort of lay a lay person using the model versus, you know, an expert or a lay person just using the Internet and seeing what the comp…”
Krieger: AI agents will soon integrate directly into Slack and Teams
“These entities, these agents are going to start showing up in all places where you do work, whether that's your Slack or your Teams, for example.”
Krieger: Claude 4.5 is the first model able to recreate Claude.ai end-to-end
“We asked every Claude from Claude one to Claude, you know, 4.5 to recreate Claude.ai. So like our flagship AI products. And 4.5 was really the first one that was able to do it end to end and actually produce something of, you know, quality. It actually works. …”