The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis How AI Starts Doing the Work in 2026 With Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger
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Dec 24, 2025 
Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer at Anthropic and Instagram co-founder, joins to explore the future of AI in coding. He discusses the emergence of vibe coding, highlighting how coding agents became essential in 2025. Enterprises are shifting from chatbots to AI agents that handle real workloads. Mike shares insights on designing for future capabilities and the importance of updating product architecture for these agents. He predicts that by 2026, AI will reliably take tasks off people's plates, transforming how organizations operate.
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Why Code Is Central To Powerful AI
- Anthropic believed powerful AI needed models that can reason, plan, and write/run code as core capabilities.
- Early demos like Cloud3 and Artifact revealed coding as a natural lever for problem solving and model usefulness.
Cloud CLI Grew Internally Before Release
- Anthropic built Cloud CLI (later Cloud Code) internally and it rapidly became the most used coding tool.
- The team realized letting models run longer and with less tight scaffolding unlocked new capabilities ahead of public awareness.
Design Products To 'Ride The Exponential'
- Ride the exponential: design products that meet today's needs but naturally improve as models get better.
- Remove harness constraints when models improve so products can leverage growing capabilities.