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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.

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.

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.

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