Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI

Anthropic product lead Catherine Wu has departed the company to join OpenAI as the head of product management for Core Products. Her move follows a trend of attrition within the Claude Code team, which has seen three departures in less than two weeks. This transition shifts a key figure behind Anthropic's developer-focused tool to a direct competitor, potentially impacting the development trajectory of the company's coding assistants.