How Anthropic Uses Claude Fable 5 With Mike Krieger

How Anthropic Uses Claude Fable 5 With Mike Krieger

From AI and I by Dan Shipper

June 10, 2026 · 52 min

About this episode

Mike Krieger discusses the impact of Fable 5 on productivity and workflows in AI-native product development.

Mike Krieger built one of the most consequential consumer apps of the last two decades as the cofounder of Instagram. He is now at the frontier of AI-native product development as head of Anthropic Labs, the team responsible for figuring out what the most capable AI models can do in the hands of real builders.When Krieger first got access to Fable 5 months before its public release, it was exciting and disorienting. “I feel like a total newbie again,” he remembers telling his team. The way he’d been thinking about productivity, strategy, and time management was out of date. The model had outpaced his workflows.Dan Shipper talked with Krieger for AI & I about what it looks like to build with a model as capable as Fable 5, including the new rhythms, challenges, and possibilities it reveals.If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!To hear more from Dan Shipper:Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribeFollow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipperGet started with Braintrust at https://www.braintrust.dev/ Timestamps:0:03 Introduction1:48 How Fable completely reshaped Mike's workflow4:48 When to use Sonnet versus Fable10:06 What the…

People in this episode

Host: Dan Shipper

Guest: Mike Krieger

Topics covered

  • AI
  • product development
  • workflow
  • engineering
  • technology

Keywords

  • AI
  • Fable 5
  • Mike Krieger
  • productivity
  • Anthropic Labs
  • Sonnet
  • engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Instagram, Anthropic Labs, Braintrust

Products: Fable 5, Sonnet

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