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title: "Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month (Stephen Council/Business Insider)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/cat-wu-product-lead-for-claude-code-and-cowork-has-left-anthropic-db7e4427
published: 2026-11-04T00:40:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month (Stephen Council/Business Insider)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-04 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/cat-wu-product-lead-for-claude-code-and-cowork-has-left-anthropic-db7e4427

Stephen Council / Business Insider : Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month — - Cat Wu, who helped scale Claude Code into one of tech's most important products, has left Anthropic. — She joined the startup in 2024 …

In this story: [Anthropic](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/anthropic), [Claude Code](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/claude-code)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261103/p43#a261103p43)

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