Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI
By Matthias Bastian, The Decoder
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OpenAI poaches a Claude Code co-developer from Anthropic. Catherine Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI to run product management for "Core Products," a hire that underscores the fierce competition between the two companies, which plays out not just at the model level but across pricing, product strategy, and talent. Codex and ChatGPT head Thibault Sottiaux welcomed her with a one-word quip: "CatGPT." Wu says she wants to build agents that take work off users' plates while keeping them in control. By her own account, she joined Anthropic two years ago, when Claude Code was still a small internal tool and most users approved every permission request by hand.
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