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    "text": "But especially in a labs-type group where our whole cadence is two-week reviews where every project goes up for, we call it persevere or pivot. So basically, every project is up for review, and either it's time to keep going, … or it's time to pivot it, or even shut down. And we shut down projects basically every single one of those cycles. And the more you do it, the less it's just like, oh, no, my project is shut down. I failed. It's like, no, that is definitely the intention of the lab team is to prototype quickly, try to ship internally, maybe get it to early access, and if it doesn't work, wind it down.",
    "speaker": "Mike Krieger",
    "role": "Head of Anthropic Labs",
    "organization": "Anthropic",
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    "work": {
      "title": "How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs",
      "type": "interview",
      "date": "2026-07-02",
      "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)",
      "locator": "12:11",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrk7CtkuIw"
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    "grade": "C",
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      "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31"
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      "leadership-and-mandates"
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    "context": "Answering how Anthropic Labs is structured.",
    "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/anthropic-labs-shuts-down-projects-every-two-week-cycle-2026"
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