Claude Code’s product lead Cat Wu leaves Anthropic to join OpenAI
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OpenAI hiring the product lead behind Claude Code underscores how central code and tooling experiences are to the next phase of model competition. If you’re building on a lab’s stack, watch where their senior product talent clusters—that’s where the best-supported workflows and APIs will emerge.
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