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23 Apr 2026 Lenny's Podcast How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
“All these tasks produce outputs that are non-code and co-work is best positioned for that. So the way that I split the products in my mind is if I'm building something where the output is code, I'll use cloud code or desktop or cloud code on mobile.”
— Cat Wu
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- Cat Wu
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- 23 Apr 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…I love that. I've seen people on plane, like it's just like such a meme now. Just I need to finish, let this agent finish. I can't shut this down. Exactly. And then I think for cowork, the role that this fills is there's a lot of work that everyone does where the output isn't code. So whether that's like getting to Slack zero or inbox zero, or whether that's creating a slide deck for some kind customer meeting that's coming up or whether that's writing a quick doc on what the goals of a feature are or what the launch plan for a feature is. All these tasks produce outputs that are non-code and co-work is best positioned for that. So the way that I split the products in my mind is if I'm building something where the output is code, I'll use cloud code or desktop or cloud code on mobile. And if the output is anything that's not code, I'll use co-work for it. People are just like sleeping on the success that co-work is having. It's just like growing incredibly fast. And I think people still don't understand maybe what it's for. And so what if you give us a couple of use cases just in your work as a PM? What are some like really interesting, maybe unexpected ways you use co-work to save you time, get more work done?…
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