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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)
“will ever be yeah it definitely gets harder like i feel like there are a lot of weeks where maybe sunday night there's some like p0 and then by monday there's like a p00 and by monday afternoon there's a p000 and you're like wow i can't believe i was so worried about that p0 from sunday But I think you just have to acknowledge that there's only so much that you can do that you need to sleep well so that you can make good decisions next day and just like brutally prioritize where you spend your time.”
— Cat Wu
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- 23 Apr 2026
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…answer to just like what skills will be important in this future because it's i forget who said this maybe ben man that this is the most normal this is the world will ever be yeah it definitely gets harder like i feel like there are a lot of weeks where maybe sunday night there's some like p0 and then by monday there's like a p00 and by monday afternoon there's a p000 and you're like wow i can't believe i was so worried about that p0 from sunday But I think you just have to acknowledge that there's only so much that you can do that you need to sleep well so that you can make good decisions next day and just like brutally prioritize where you spend your time. What's the most important thing to get right and be okay letting things go. Like there's, there's products that we ship that aren't as polished as I wish they were, but, You know, our top goal is to help empower professional developers. And if a product isn't successful, as long as it's not blocking the core use case, it's okay because we'll hear the feedback and we'll fix it in the next release. Launching a feature that is buggy is the kind of thing that would have kept me up at night, but it is something that I am now able to like live with knowing that, okay, we're going to get that quick feedback and we're going to fix it in the next release. What I'm imagining is there's that gif. I think it's maybe from Pirates of the Caribbean where it's this guy walking down a pair of stairs on a ship and the whole ship is just being demolished around him. And he's so chill, just strolling down the staircase as everything's falling apart. And that's interesting because everyone I've met from Anthropic is just so chill and just so optimistic. Yeah, I think that's a really interesting insight is just like having this calmness and optimism versus just like, oh my God, everything's crazy and going nuts.…
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