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Constitutional AI

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Lenny’s Podcast93 min

Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next

Mike Krieger · Jun 5, 2025
Key learnings
  • Use AI as an independent strategy critic: ask it to be brutal or to challenge your thinking, since default prompts tend to…
  • As AI writes most code, bottlenecks shift upstream to deciding what to build and aligning people, and downstream to merge queues…
  • Give teams a minimum viable strategy so people feel empowered to build and explore at the edge of model capabilities without…
Lenny’s Podcast87 min

Benjamin Mann

Benjamin Mann · Jul 20, 2025
Key learnings
  • Mann argues progress is accelerating, not plateauing: model releases now come every one to three months, and scaling laws…
  • Define transformative AI by the Economic Turing Test: if an agent passes as a human hire for a role over a month or three, track…
  • Use AI tools ambitiously and persistently; Mann says retrying a task from a fresh start succeeds far more often than repeatedly…