Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel

Lenny's Podcast · · 29 min

Anthropic's Mike Krieger joins Lenny Rachitsky to discuss why AI cannot fully replace product managers yet and how the PM role must change as technology shifts every two months.

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The gist

  1. PMs are not being replaced but rewound to early-stage work where someone still needs to connect teams, prioritize, and consider all user needs.
  2. Experienced PMs should drop skills that mattered when building was expensive, like obsessing over button placement, since those skills are now largely obsolete.

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AI assistant created by Anthropic for text analysis, writing, and data interpretation.

"We've had Claude both sort of keep an eye on how everything is going, but also create the UI by which first the TPM and then the entire team understands what is happening in that project. One of the biggest shifts in how we've worked in the last year at Ant..."
Mike Krieger ▶ Play at 14:19

What Mike uses it for: Generating and maintaining internal project management UIs; keeping track of multi-stream projects; iterating on internal software

253 creators recommend Claude, including Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Chris Williamson.

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