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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)
“I would really push people towards building apps that you're actually using every single day. Because I think only through that usage are you actually getting the value.”
— 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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…Amazing. Is there anything else, Kat, you wanted to share? Anything else you wanted to leave listeners with? Anything you wanted to double down on that we haven't already touched on before we get to our very exciting lightning round? I see a lot of people playing around with AI and building like prototype apps and tinkering with building workflows. I would really push people towards building apps that you're actually using every single day. Because I think only through that usage are you actually getting the value. Like if you build a prototype app that isn't helping you get more done, then the AI isn't really adding value to your day. And there's only so much you learn from that when it's like, OK, I just did one shot at something. Oh, that's cool. And then you never come back to it. It's like you're not learning a lot.…
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