Claude Code product lead Cat Wu leaves Anthropic for OpenAI role
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Cat Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, announced she is joining OpenAI to lead product management for its Core Products team.
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Timeline · 52 reports
- 2026-11-06 00:07 · DEV Community — AI
AI-DLC: How AWS Built Harness-Neutral Workflow Rules That Run in Claude Code, Cursor, and Seven Other Agents - 2026-11-05 22:05 · DEV Community — AI
Totem: shared handoffs between Claude Code and Codex - 2026-11-05 21:39 · DEV Community — AI
Replaying 147 Claude Code & Codex Sessions to Tune autoCompactWindow (and Catching a 3x Token Overcount) - 2026-11-05 20:03 · DEV Community — AI
Sandbox an MCP server for Claude Code with one line in .mcp.json - 2026-11-05 19:31 · DEV Community — AI
How to Give Claude Code Long Term Memory (2026) - 2026-11-05 19:00 · DEV Community — AI
Give Claude Code a /share step that waits for your yes - 2026-11-05 16:39 · DEV Community — AI
Let’s Talk About Claude Code, Part 2: Container or Sandbox VM? - 2026-11-05 13:47 · The Next Web
Claude Code’s product lead Cat Wu leaves Anthropic to join OpenAI - 2026-11-05 12:20 · The Decoder
Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI - 2026-11-05 12:20 · DEV Community — AI
49 minutes from first commit to production: building a planning poker app with Claude Code - 2026-11-05 10:38 · DEV Community — AI
Generate AI images, videos and music from Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code with one remote MCP server - 2026-11-05 06:29 · DEV Community — AI
How to let Claude Code and Codex talk directly across two computers without copy-pasting logs - 2026-11-05 05:09 · DEV Community — AI
Give Claude Code and Cursor live social media data with an MCP server - 2026-11-05 02:19 · DEV Community — AI
How to run Claude Code and Codex together on one server - 2026-11-05 02:04 · DEV Community — AI
Run Claude Code and Codex in parallel git worktrees and track usage with Orca - 2026-11-05 01:43 · Unite.AI
Cat Wu to Lead Product Management for OpenAI’s Core Products - 2026-11-05 01:36 · DEV Community — AI
Run Claude Code and Codex on a cloud dev box - 2026-11-05 01:20 · Techmeme
Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code - 2026-11-05 01:11 · DEV Community — AI
Run a Claude Code review in CI with one claude -p line - 2026-11-05 00:57 · Business Insider AI
Cat Wu joins OpenAI from Anthropic in huge product-lead coup - 2026-11-05 00:57 · Business Insider AI
A top Anthropic product leader has been poached by OpenAI - 2026-11-04 23:52 · DEV Community — AI
One MCP Endpoint, 153 Tools: How I Stopped Installing a Server per Job in Claude Code - 2026-11-04 17:01 · DEV Community — AI
Let's Talk About Claude Code, Part 1: Where Is Your Agent Actually Running? - 2026-11-04 16:30 · DEV Community — AI
Use Claude Code with Any Model via OpenRouter - 2026-11-04 15:52 · DEV Community — AI
Run Claude Code on a Relay Endpoint: Setup, the Model-Catalog Pitfall, and What It Actually Costs - 2026-11-04 15:21 · DEV Community — AI
How to use Claude Code and Codex together: setup lessons from my review gate - 2026-11-04 15:20 · DEV Community — AI
A planted AGENTS.md in Downloads: how to check your Claude Code and Codex setup - 2026-11-04 13:30 · DEV Community — AI
Managing Claude Code and Codex from My Phone: What I Actually Needed - 2026-11-04 12:05 · AlphaSignal
Agent Autoloop Runs Claude Code and Codex Without an Open Terminal - 2026-11-04 11:24 · DEV Community — AI
MCP server not showing in Claude Code or Codex? Find out which of three problems you have - 2026-11-04 07:34 · DEV Community — AI
Postman silently installed itself into Claude Code and Codex: the log lines, the self-approving hook, and the 4-point audit - 2026-11-04 07:18 · DEV Community — AI
Does Claude Code actually use our MCP server? I measured it - 2026-11-04 07:06 · DEV Community — AI
One MCP server, three configs: Claude Code, Cursor and Codex - 2026-11-04 06:51 · Analytics India Magazine
Three Members Behind Claude Code Leave Anthropic Within 10 Days - 2026-11-04 05:45 · DEV Community — AI
Claude Code for product managers: use your team's Claude Code or Cursor without a terminal - 2026-11-04 04:10 · DEV Community — AI
Run Claude Code and the OpenAI SDK on free LLM tiers with FreeLLMAPI - 2026-11-04 03:07 · DEV Community — AI
Putting Claude Code and Codex progress on the iPhone Lock Screen with Live Activities - 2026-11-04 02:57 · DEV Community — AI
Claude Code, Codex and Cursor: one agent picker in Coincide - 2026-11-04 02:01 · DEV Community — AI
Postman Desktop Added Itself to Claude Code and Codex. Its Installer Trusts Its Own Hook - 2026-11-04 01:11 · Unite.AI
Cat Wu Steps Down as Claude Code Product Chief After Two Years - 2026-11-04 00:40 · Techmeme
Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month - 2026-11-03 23:55 · Business Insider AI
Cat Wu, a face of the blockbuster app Claude Code, leaves Anthropic - 2026-11-03 23:55 · Business Insider AI
Top Anthropic product leader Cat Wu, one of the faces of Claude Code, has left the startup - 2026-11-03 21:43 · DEV Community — AI
How to run Claude Code locally on a Mac, free and offline - 2026-11-03 20:02 · DEV Community — AI
Run Claude Code and Codex from one app with T3 Code - 2026-11-03 19:02 · DEV Community — AI
8 jq Commands That Show What Your Coding Agent Actually Did, From Its Transcript - 2026-11-03 18:01 · DEV Community — AI
I built Codepit, a desktop app for Claude Code, to see every change as it lands - 2026-11-03 14:00 · SiliconANGLE AI
Exclusive: Cogent Security’s VR-1.1 model outscores Claude Code and Codex on vulnerability repair - 2026-11-03 13:12 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Claude Code vs Cursor CLI: Autonomous Terminal Coding Agent Architecture and SWE-bench Showdown - 2026-11-03 11:51 · DEV Community — AI
Codex Review 2026: What OpenAI's Coding Agent Actually Costs (and Where It Loses to Claude Code) - 2026-11-03 10:53 · DEV Community — AI
How to give Claude Code persistent context across separate terminal sessions? - 2026-11-03 09:16 · DEV Community — AI
How to test a web app built with Claude Code or Cursor before you ship