Cat Wu announced on X on November 3, 2026, that she had left Anthropic, where she served as head of product for Claude Code, closing a two-year stretch in which the coding tool moved from an internal experiment toward more autonomous software development. She thanked the teams behind Claude Code, Cowork and Tag, describing the products as the sum of thousands of ideas from colleagues. She also credited users’ feedback with shaping much of what the teams shipped. Wu characterized helping build…
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How OpenSmartRoute helps
For a team that routes through the router, a release like this is one catalogue entry. The new model competes on the next request against what the team already runs, on quality, cost and speed. If it answers well it earns more traffic; if it fails it gets less, with no code change in the app.
Any OpenAI-compatible provider works, as do open-weight models served locally. The catalogue at https://opensmartroute.ai lists models with their prices and live rankings, and the savings ledger shows what the routing saved against always using the most expensive option.