Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

Cat Wu, Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, shares her product philosophy in an interview at the Code with Claude conference. She explains that Anthropic focuses on staying at the AI frontier rather than reacting to competitors, expects the rapid pace of model releases to continue, and identifies proactivity as the next major step for AI — where Claude will anticipate user needs and set up automations without being asked. She also addresses concerns about AI agents replacing workers, arguing that effective agent management still requires domain expertise and that the goal is to free people from tedious tasks rather than eliminate jobs.