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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)

“Oh, we actually do PRDs sometimes. So I think for features that are like particularly ambiguous, it does help to write out just a one pager on what the goals are, what the delightful use cases are, what the failure modes currently are that we need to fix.”

— 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 how so much of this is like, okay, we still need PMs in the future. And there's so much talk of like, why do we need PMs? We're just going to ship and build leading engineers. Oh, we actually do PRDs sometimes. So I think for features that are like particularly ambiguous, it does help to write out just a one pager on what the goals are, what the delightful use cases are, what the failure modes currently are that we need to fix. And there are occasionally some projects, especially things that require heavy infrastructure that do take many months. And for those situations, we do write PRDs still. I want to drill a little bit further into just how you're able to move so fast. I've never seen anything like the pace folks at Anthropic are shipping at. Like someone made this calendar of launches across Anthropic and it was literally every day there was like a major feature or product. So one question people had online is you guys just launched this, not launched, but built this incredible model mythos that is still in preview because it's so powerful. People are a little afraid of what it can do. Have you guys been using this? Is this part of the reason you've been able to move so fast?…

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