Engineering & research profile

Mike Krieger

Anthropic · 2026

Mike Krieger led Anthropic Labs at the time of his AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 appearance, following his work as Anthropic’s chief product officer. He co-founded Instagram, where he was CTO, and later co-founded Artifact. His work connects product development with experiments in how teams delegate engineering tasks to AI agents.

1 conference talk

AI Engineer World's Fair 202626:10

How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs — Mike Krieger, Anthropic

Mike Krieger describes how he delegates broader goals to Claude and how Anthropic Labs organizes rapid experiments. He discusses a weekend code migration, shared agent workflows, human comprehension as a code-review bottleneck, and two-week project reviews. The interview also covers product integration, opportunities for specialized startups, and…

Mike Krieger

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