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Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness"

TechnologyMay 15, 2026
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Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness"
"We have no grand plan," says Anthropic's Cat Wu—but that's by design.
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SAN FRANCISCO—Amid an ever-expanding array of surfaces, growing demand for tokens and compute, and a rapidly evolving user base, Anthropic doesn't have a long-term road map for Claude Code. However, it's betting that such a plan would be rendered moot by improvements in model capabilities and new signals from developers on how best to use it. That's the takeaway from a 30-minute conversation Ars had with Cat Wu, Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code.

Last week, in a three-level car rental parking garage meticulously converted into an event space in downtown San Francisco, Anthropic put on its second annual Code with Claude developer conference. As previously reported, the single-day event included a keynote introducing new features for Managed Agents and announcing a compute deal with SpaceX.

That compute deal was accompanied by a doubling of usage limits for Claude Code users on the company's Pro and Max plans—a response to a lot of user frustration about a compute crunch, especially in recent weeks.

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