Cat Wu

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)

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Opening
Cat Wu (00:00:00): I think it is very hard to be the right amount of AGI-pilled. It's very easy to build the product for the super AGI strong model. The hard thing is figuring out for the current model, how do you elicit the maximum capability? Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:13): I've never seen anything like the pace folks at Anthropic are shipping at. Cat Wu (00:00:17): We want to remove every single barrier to shipping things....

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Low-ego framing
Cat Wu (00:00:17): We want to remove every single barrier to shipping things. The timelines for a lot of our product features have gone...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Cat Wu (01:25:08): Thanks for having me. Lenny Rachitsky (01:25:09): Bye, everyone.

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:31:58): I don't know if you can talk about this in depth, but do you feel like the OpenClaw decision is a part of this, just like, okay,...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Cat Wu (01:25:08): Thanks for having me. Lenny Rachitsky (01:25:09): Bye, everyone....

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ending
Lenny Rachitsky (01:24:25): Extremely cool. Everyone on... People on Twitter are not shy with sharing this feedback, so keep it going. Cat Wu (01:24:30): Yes, please share the problems that you're having with us. Lenny Rachitsky (01:24:34): Yeah, and it's really cool to see all your team being so active on Twitter and responding to people. And so what I'm hearing, this is actually stuff you guys actually see and react to. Cat Wu (01:24:44): Yeah. We appreciate everyone being so engaged with us....

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