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Wu: Claude Code leak stemmed from human error despite two human reviews
“We realized that this was the result of human error. There is a human working with Claude to write a PR. This was just an update to how we release our packages. And it actually went through two layers of human review. And so this was a result of human error an…”
Cat Wu: Claude infrastructure was not designed for third-party products
“It wasn't designed for third party products, which have different usage patterns than our first party ones.”
Wu: Employee token costs surge with every major AI model capability jump
“And so we do see the token cost per engineer or like per any knowledge worker increase every time that there's a model jump or like a substantial product improvement. I think it's still much lower than what the average engineer salary is, but we see the percen…”
Wu: Anthropic engineers must pass Claude-generated code reviews before merging PRs
“This code review is so good that our engineering team relies on this code review to pass before we merge PRs.”
Cat Wu: AGI will take a long time to diffuse across society
“I think it will take a long time for AGI to diffuse across society.”
Wu: Nearly All Claude Code PMs Have Engineering Backgrounds or Write Code
“And actually almost all the PMs on our team have either been engineers or ship code here on code code.”
Wu: Claude Opus 4 completes multi-step tasks without explicit prompt reminders
“With Opus four and later models, we realized that we didn't need to force it to use this to-do list. It would like naturally use it itself. For the earlier models, we had to keep reminding it. Hey, did you finish everything on the to-do list? You can't finish …”
Cat Wu: Scaling AI agent fleets will shift execution from local machines to remote cloud
“At that point, you're probably not going to run everything locally on your machine anymore. There's just like not enough RAM to do it.
And so we're thinking about.
How do we make it easier for you to manage all these?
These will probably run remotely.”
Wu: Anthropic product timelines dropped from six months to a single day
“I think now with AI and with how much that has accelerated engineering and with how quickly the model capabilities are improving, the timelines for a lot of our product features have gone down from six months To one month and sometimes to one week or even one …”