Today on the AI Daily Brief, The Future of Vibe Coding and What's in store with AI 2026 with Mike Krieger, the chief product officer of Anthropic.

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intelligence service, check it out at AIDBIntel.com. Now, as we move forward into our end-of-year episodes,

I'm excited to add a couple of conversations into the mix. You might know Mike Krieger as the co-founder

of Instagram. Real Ones will also know him as the co-founder of Artifact, an AI-powered

news app. However, for most of you right now, Mike's most important role is as the chief product

officer of Anthropic. In this conversation, we talk about the origins of Anthropics' focus on

coding, how enterprise AI uses has changed over the course of the year, and some of the trends

that Mike is most excited about heading into 2026.

All right, Mike, welcome to the AI Daily Brief. Great to have you here. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.

Yeah. So this is super fun. Like I was just saying, some of my favorite episodes of the year are these end of year episodes where we get to kind of think, think big, look forward.

And one of the big themes I think for me heading into the new year is sort of everything vibe coding, everything agentic. And so I was super excited to have you join the show. What I wanted to do, though, is actually kind of go way back a little bit. I think, you know, a lot of folks see anthropic as sort of the torchbearer in a lot of ways for AI coding. And I wondered, you know, I was thinking about when you joined the organization and just how, how early was that

sort of focus clear? You know, was that an emergent phenomenon as it became clear that

there was something very differentiated in these models and that's sort of how people were using it?

Or is that sort of like intention from very early on that this is a broad sort of set of use cases that matter to you guys? Yeah, the thing I always like to say whenever there's sort of product folks inside Anthropic, they're thinking about sort of which direction to take things in is the more you can align with the sort of company's general long-term perspective about where powerful AI will come from, like,

the smoother things will go because Anthropics is nothing but focused, right? And I think that

that's shown through and sort of the, you know, the bets that we choose to make versus not.

And definitely there's this belief that, you know, for very powerful AI, you need the ability of the

model to reason about things, to plan genetically

and work for a long time horizon, but also to be able to write and run code, not only to produce

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