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Cat Wu

Head of Product, Claude Code, Anthropic

Cat Wu is the Head of Product for Claude Code at Anthropic, according to a March 2026 article on claude.com written by Wu. The article, "Product management on the AI exponential," describes how product teams are adapting their workflows and roadmaps as model capabilities change. In it, Wu describes testing each new Claude model, starting with Claude Sonnet 3.5 (new) in October 2024, by asking Claude Code, then an internal tool, to add a table tool to Excalidraw.1

At a glance

Current role
Head of Product, Claude Code
Company
Anthropic
Sector
Company
Work listed
2
Sources cited
1
Profile reviewed

Career

Cat Wu joined Anthropic in August 2024 as a product manager on the Research PM team, which connects research work with customer needs. When Claude Code became available inside the company that autumn, Wu used it to build Streamlit apps for analyzing user feedback, run evaluations and create reinforcement-learning environments, and Wu now leads product for Claude Code.1

Writing

In the March 2026 article "Product management on the AI exponential," Wu describes a Claude Code team in which designers ship code, engineers make product decisions and product managers build prototypes and evaluations. The article credits short self-directed experiments with producing features such as Claude Code on Desktop, the AskUserQuestion tool and to-do lists, and recounts a habit, begun in October 2024, of testing each new model by asking it to add a table tool to Excalidraw.1

Work and contributions

  • Claude Code Proprietary product

    Leads product for Claude Code; the March 2026 claude.com article identifies Wu as the Head of Product for Claude Code at Anthropic.1

  • Product management on the AI exponential

    Author of this March 19, 2026 article on how product management teams adapt workflows and roadmaps to fast-changing model capabilities.1

Timeline

  1. Joined Anthropic as a product manager on the Research PM team.1
  2. Began testing each new Claude model with the same Excalidraw feature request in Claude Code.1
  3. Published "Product management on the AI exponential" on claude.com as Head of Product for Claude Code.1

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References

1 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. Product management on the AI exponential (claude.com article by Cat Wu)Anthropic · Official page · published Mar 19, 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026