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How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)

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Topics: AI | Leadership | Product | Startups

Cat Wu, Head of Product for Claude Code at Anthropic, explains how her team ships features in days instead of months.

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Cat explains how she partners with tech lead Boris to translate his AGI-scale product vision into a 3–6 month execution roadmap while keeping cross-functional teams tightly aligned.

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She argues that AI-native PMs must optimise for extreme iteration speed—shipping meaningful features weekly or faster—and focus on eliciting maximum capability from today’s models rather than designing only for hypothetical future AGI.

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Cat emphasises that as code becomes cheap, the most valuable emerging PM skill is strong product taste: knowing what to build, in what order, and how to make those choices amid rapidly changing AI capabilities.

"The timelines for a lot of our product features have gone down from six months to one month and sometimes to even one day." - Cat Wu