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Claude Code product lead Catherine Wu leaves Anthropic for OpenAI

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Catherine 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 Sottiau.

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Timeline · 74 reports

  1. 2026-11-05 20:03 · DEV Community — AI
    Sandbox an MCP server for Claude Code with one line in .mcp.json
  2. 2026-11-05 19:31 · DEV Community — AI
    How to Give Claude Code Long Term Memory (2026)
  3. 2026-11-05 19:00 · DEV Community — AI
    Give Claude Code a /share step that waits for your yes
  4. 2026-11-05 16:39 · DEV Community — AI
    Let’s Talk About Claude Code, Part 2: Container or Sandbox VM?
  5. 2026-11-05 14:26 · The Next Web
    Anthropic open-sources FlashProve to prove which AI model wrote an answer
  6. 2026-11-05 13:47 · The Next Web
    Claude Code’s product lead Cat Wu leaves Anthropic to join OpenAI
  7. 2026-11-05 12:20 · The Decoder
    Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI
  8. 2026-11-05 12:20 · DEV Community — AI
    49 minutes from first commit to production: building a planning poker app with Claude Code
  9. 2026-11-05 11:10 · DEV Community — AI
    Generating video from Claude and Cursor with one API key (MCP + agent skills)
  10. 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
  11. 2026-11-05 09:33 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop Guessing Which AI Model to Use: Test One Codex Task through RelayRouter
  12. 2026-11-05 06:29 · DEV Community — AI
    How to let Claude Code and Codex talk directly across two computers without copy-pasting logs
  13. 2026-11-05 05:09 · DEV Community — AI
    Give Claude Code and Cursor live social media data with an MCP server
  14. 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
  15. 2026-11-05 02:19 · DEV Community — AI
    How to run Claude Code and Codex together on one server
  16. 2026-11-05 02:04 · DEV Community — AI
    Run Claude Code and Codex in parallel git worktrees and track usage with Orca
  17. 2026-11-05 02:03 · DEV Community — AI
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  18. 2026-11-05 01:43 · Unite.AI
    Cat Wu to Lead Product Management for OpenAI’s Core Products
  19. 2026-11-05 01:36 · DEV Community — AI
    Run Claude Code and Codex on a cloud dev box
  20. 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
  21. 2026-11-05 01:11 · DEV Community — AI
    Run a Claude Code review in CI with one claude -p line
  22. 2026-11-05 00:57 · Business Insider AI
    Cat Wu joins OpenAI from Anthropic in huge product-lead coup
  23. 2026-11-05 00:57 · Business Insider AI
    A top Anthropic product leader has been poached by OpenAI
  24. 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
  25. 2026-11-04 23:52 · DEV Community — AI
    One MCP Endpoint, 153 Tools: How I Stopped Installing a Server per Job in Claude Code
  26. 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
  27. 2026-11-04 17:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Let's Talk About Claude Code, Part 1: Where Is Your Agent Actually Running?
  28. 2026-11-04 16:30 · DEV Community — AI
    Use Claude Code with Any Model via OpenRouter
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 2026-11-04 15:23 · The Decoder
    Anthropic's new prototype proves which model wrote an AI response without exposing its weights
  32. 2026-11-04 15:21 · DEV Community — AI
    How to use Claude Code and Codex together: setup lessons from my review gate
  33. 2026-11-04 15:20 · DEV Community — AI
    A planted AGENTS.md in Downloads: how to check your Claude Code and Codex setup
  34. 2026-11-04 13:30 · DEV Community — AI
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  35. 2026-11-04 12:05 · AlphaSignal
    Agent Autoloop Runs Claude Code and Codex Without an Open Terminal
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 2026-11-04 07:18 · DEV Community — AI
    Does Claude Code actually use our MCP server? I measured it
  40. 2026-11-04 07:06 · DEV Community — AI
    One MCP server, three configs: Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
  41. 2026-11-04 06:51 · Analytics India Magazine
    Three Members Behind Claude Code Leave Anthropic Within 10 Days
  42. 2026-11-04 06:37 · DEV Community — AI
    FlashProve: Proving Which AI Model Actually Answered
  43. 2026-11-04 06:25 · Mint AI
    What is FlashProve? Anthropic’s open-source tool to prove which AI model generated a response
  44. 2026-11-04 05:45 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code for product managers: use your team's Claude Code or Cursor without a terminal
  45. 2026-11-04 04:10 · DEV Community — AI
    Run Claude Code and the OpenAI SDK on free LLM tiers with FreeLLMAPI
  46. 2026-11-04 03:38 · DEV Community — AI
    Anthropic FlashProve proves which model answered with a zkSNARK proof
  47. 2026-11-04 03:07 · DEV Community — AI
    Putting Claude Code and Codex progress on the iPhone Lock Screen with Live Activities
  48. 2026-11-04 02:57 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code, Codex and Cursor: one agent picker in Coincide
  49. 2026-11-04 02:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Postman Desktop Added Itself to Claude Code and Codex. Its Installer Trusts Its Own Hook
  50. 2026-11-04 01:11 · Unite.AI
    Cat Wu Steps Down as Claude Code Product Chief After Two Years
  51. 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
  52. 2026-11-03 23:55 · Business Insider AI
    Cat Wu, a face of the blockbuster app Claude Code, leaves Anthropic
  53. 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
  54. 2026-11-03 23:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Anthropic's FlashProve Proves Which Model Answered You, at 70-95x vLLM's GPU Time
  55. 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)
  56. 2026-11-03 21:43 · DEV Community — AI
    How to run Claude Code locally on a Mac, free and offline
  57. 2026-11-03 20:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Run Claude Code and Codex from one app with T3 Code
  58. 2026-11-03 19:54 · AlphaSignal
    Anthropic's FlashProve Cryptographically Proves Which AI Model Answered You
  59. 2026-11-03 19:02 · DEV Community — AI
    8 jq Commands That Show What Your Coding Agent Actually Did, From Its Transcript
  60. 2026-11-03 18:01 · DEV Community — AI
    I built Codepit, a desktop app for Claude Code, to see every change as it lands
  61. 2026-11-03 14:00 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Exclusive: Cogent Security’s VR-1.1 model outscores Claude Code and Codex on vulnerability repair
  62. 2026-11-03 13:12 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Claude Code vs Cursor CLI: Autonomous Terminal Coding Agent Architecture and SWE-bench Showdown
  63. 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)
  64. 2026-11-03 11:28 · DEV Community — AI
    I built an open-source tool that lets your coding agent film screen recordings
  65. 2026-11-03 10:53 · DEV Community — AI
    How to give Claude Code persistent context across separate terminal sessions?
  66. 2026-11-03 10:10 · r/ClaudeAI
    I built an open-source tool that lets Claude Code make Screen Studio-quality screen recordings
  67. 2026-11-03 09:16 · DEV Community — AI
    How to test a web app built with Claude Code or Cursor before you ship
  68. 2026-11-03 09:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Paste the Broken UI Into Claude Code, Then Make Playwright Prove the Fix
  69. 2026-11-03 05:42 · DEV Community — AI
    One API Key, One Balance: Wiring Models and Data APIs into Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
  70. 2026-11-03 03:08 · DEV Community — AI
    MCP server managers for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI (2026)
  71. 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
  72. 2026-11-03 02:11 · DEV Community — AI
    Let Claude Code query your database read only with the DBX MCP server
  73. 2026-11-03 01:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Where Claude Code and Codex keep /goal state, and how one open-source app reads both
  74. 2026-11-02 20:39 · DEV Community — AI
    Unslop Brings Staged UI Review to Claude Code and Codex

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