The Great Anthropic Exodus (Timeline Edition)

The Hook

Your feed is starting to look like a farewell tour. Several Anthropic staffers have posted "last day" messages in the past few days, and the resignation post is officially its own genre.

The Meat

🚀 The OpenAI crowd. Cat Wu announced she's joining OpenAI to lead product for Core Products, promising agents that "have your back." Another ex-Anthropic employee also landed there and shared the real takeaway of the move: Anthropic has better drinks, OpenAI has better snacks. Priorities.

👋 The "see you soon" crowd. Spotted on X: one person who spent over a year on Claude Code says they still believe in the mission and trust their old colleagues "at the wheel," but wants a break before the next thing. Another, who built Claude Code on desktop, called leaving the hardest thing of their career, then pivoted to free time for GTA VI. And Theo? A short thank-you and a promise to share more soon.

🎭 The satirists. Two posts were clearly tongue-in-cheek. One roasts Anthropic's handling of Chinese-user bans and jokes about joining Kimi. The other skewers usage policies, KYC and third-party harness rules, then signs off with a jab about "moral superiority." We can't verify any of the claims, and both read as parody, so file them under "internet humor," not "internal exposé."

The Takeaway

Nobody has said why they left, and most of the serious posts are warm about Anthropic. Keep an eye out for the "what's next" announcements. For now, it's a lot of career moves and one very important snack ranking.