Cat Wu announces last day at Anthropic after two years on Claude Code
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Cat Wu says Friday was her last day at Anthropic, where she joined after building an RL environment with Claude Code.
Her post, published on X on November 3, 2026, says she worked on Claude Code for two years.
Wu says the default for Claude Code has shifted from manually approving every permission prompt to trusting Claude to auto-approve, and that Claude now handles large migrations and builds new products.
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cat@_catwuXCat Wu leaves Anthropic after two years building Claude CodeAICat Wu says Friday was her last day at Anthropic, where she joined after building an RL environment with Claude Code. She says the default has shifted from manually approving every permission prompt to trusting Claude to auto-approve, with Claude now handling large migrations and building new products.
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