How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
Apr 23, 2026 · 1h 26m · YouTube
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0:00I think it is very hard to be the right amount of AGI pilled.
0:03It's very easy to build the product for the super AGI strong model.
0:08The hard thing is figuring out for the current model, how do you elicit the maximum capability?
0:13I've never seen anything like the pace you folks at Anthropic are shipping at.
0:17We want to remove every single barrier to shipping things.
0:20The timelines for a lot of our product features have gone down from six months to one month and sometimes to even one day.
0:26You're interviewing hundreds of PMs and you just keep feeling like they're approaching it very incorrectly.
0:32The PM role is changing a lot.
0:34It's changing really quickly.
0:35The thing that is extremely important for building AI native products is iterating so quickly, figuring out a way for you to actually launch features every single week.
0:44What do you think are the emerging skills PMs need to develop?
0:48It comes back to product taste.
0:50As code becomes much cheaper to write, the thing that becomes more valuable is deciding what to write.
0:56Today, my guest is Kat Wu, head of product for Cloud Code and co-work at Anthropic.
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