Claude Code product lead Catherine Wu leaves Anthropic for OpenAI
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Catherine (Cat) Wu, founding product lead for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI to lead product management for its Core Products team, working with Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux.
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Timeline · 74 reports
- 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 14:26 · The Next Web
Anthropic open-sources FlashProve to prove which AI model wrote an answer - 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 11:10 · DEV Community — AI
Generating video from Claude and Cursor with one API key (MCP + agent skills) - 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 09:33 · DEV Community — AI
Stop Guessing Which AI Model to Use: Test One Codex Task through RelayRouter - 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 03:18 · DEV Community — AI
One API Key for Claude, GPT-5, and Gemini — A Practical Relay Setup for Cursor, ChatBox, and Claude Code - 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 02:03 · DEV Community — AI
Top 5 Open Source Claude Code Alternatives in 2026 - 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 - 2026-11-05 00:34 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Anthropic's FlashProve: what 72x overhead and a 1,024-token cap mean for proving which model answered you - 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 22:51 · The New Stack AI
Anthropic found a way to prove which AI model answered you — but there’s a costly catch - 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 15:58 · r/artificial
Anthropic’s FlashProve could prove an AI provider used the model you paid for without exposing its weights - 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 15:23 · The Decoder
Anthropic's new prototype proves which model wrote an AI response without exposing its weights - 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 09:01 · DEV Community — AI
A Read-Only Reviewer Subagent in Claude Code: 3 Tools, Haiku 5.5, a 100K Compact Window - 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 06:37 · DEV Community — AI
FlashProve: Proving Which AI Model Actually Answered - 2026-11-04 06:25 · Mint AI
What is FlashProve? Anthropic’s open-source tool to prove which AI model generated a response - 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 03:38 · DEV Community — AI
Anthropic FlashProve proves which model answered with a zkSNARK proof - 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 23:01 · DEV Community — AI
Anthropic's FlashProve Proves Which Model Answered You, at 70-95x vLLM's GPU Time - 2026-11-03 22:10 · r/machinelearningnews
Anthropic open-sources FlashProve, zkSNARK proofs for 400B Llama 4 Maverick inference (110 tok/s on 1 H100) - 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 19:54 · AlphaSignal
Anthropic's FlashProve Cryptographically Proves Which AI Model Answered You - 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 11:28 · DEV Community — AI
I built an open-source tool that lets your coding agent film screen recordings - 2026-11-03 10:53 · DEV Community — AI
How to give Claude Code persistent context across separate terminal sessions? - 2026-11-03 10:10 · r/ClaudeAI
I built an open-source tool that lets Claude Code make Screen Studio-quality screen recordings - 2026-11-03 09:16 · DEV Community — AI
How to test a web app built with Claude Code or Cursor before you ship - 2026-11-03 09:01 · DEV Community — AI
Paste the Broken UI Into Claude Code, Then Make Playwright Prove the Fix - 2026-11-03 05:42 · DEV Community — AI
One API Key, One Balance: Wiring Models and Data APIs into Claude Code, Cursor and Codex - 2026-11-03 03:08 · DEV Community — AI
MCP server managers for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI (2026) - 2026-11-03 02:30 · DEV Community — AI
How do you know a dubbed video is good? I built an open-source tool to check - 2026-11-03 02:11 · DEV Community — AI
Let Claude Code query your database read only with the DBX MCP server - 2026-11-03 01:43 · DEV Community — AI
Where Claude Code and Codex keep /goal state, and how one open-source app reads both - 2026-11-02 20:39 · DEV Community — AI
Unslop Brings Staged UI Review to Claude Code and Codex - 2026-11-02 20:07 · DEV Community — AI
Go from idea to tested feature in Claude Code or Cursor with /spec, /plan and /build