Mike Krieger

Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): 90% of your code roughly is written by AI now. Mike Krieger (00:00:03): The team that works in the most futuristic way is the Claude Code team. They're using Claude Code to build Claude Code in a very self-improving kind of way. We really rapidly became bottlenecked on other things like our merge queue. We had to completely re-architect it because so much more code was being written and so many more pull requests were being submitted....

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We're using Claude Code to build Claude Code in a very self-improving kind of way. We really rapidly became bottlenecked on other things like our merge queue. We had to completely re-architect it because...

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Claude wanted me to share it with Mike. Lenny Rachitsky (00:02:00): A big thank you to my newsletter Slack community for suggesting topics for this conversation. If you enjoy this podcast, don't forget...

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questions and it nailed it. Okay, so two questions from Claude to you. One is how do you think about building features that preserve user agency rather than creating dependency on me, I worry about becoming a crutch...

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how I think about it. So that's probably the biggest shift that I've had is, I don't know about independence is the right word, but creativity and sort of novelty of thought relative to how I'm thinking...

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I love that. Tell me what sucks. Lenny Rachitsky (01:05:50): Amazing. Mike, thank you so much for being here. Mike Krieger (01:05:52): Thanks for having me, Lenny. Lenny Rachitsky (01:05:53):...

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