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Anthropic's Claude Code team uses Claude to write and review itself
“The team that works in the most futuristic way is the Claude code team, because they're using Claude code to build Claude code in a very self-improving kind of way. And, you know, early on in that project, they would do very line by line pull request reviews, …”
Mike Krieger uses Claude Opus 4 as his primary strategy partner
“Where my go-to product strategy partner is Claude, and it has been basically for that full year where I'll write an initial strategy. I'll share it with Claude basically, and I'll have it, you know, look at it. And in the past, it's pretty anodyne kind of comm…”
Krieger: Anthropic embeds product teams directly in post-training research workflows
“The functional unit of work at Anthropic is no longer like take the model and then like go like work with design and product to go ship a product. It's more like we are at like, we're in the post-training conversations around how these things should work. And …”
Mike Krieger steered Anthropic's product strategy toward APIs over consumer apps
“I came in, everybody expected me to just like go super, super hard on consumer and make that the thing. And I again would make the other mistake. Instead, I spent a bunch of time talking to like financial services companies and insurance companies and like oth…”
Mike Krieger confirms Anthropic is not planning to acquire Cursor
“I don't think we're gonna buy a cursor.
Cursor's very big but we love working with them.”
Krieger: Anthropic is training Claude to teach users its own features
“One thing we're trying to get better at, and that's also letting the product be like educational in a very literal way, which is like the thing we did not do early and now we're changing is just tell Claude more about itself, which was like, you know, it's in …”