Why wouldn't a company want to hire the fore-most expert in a tool that is critical to the company? They are hiring for someone with that exact expertise. A c

Why wouldn't a company want to hire the fore-most expert in a tool that is critical to the company? They are hiring for someone with that exact expertise. A competitor could hire the OP instead, get them to work on improving the software for a few years. Giving the competitor a major head start. Worst-case scenario, the tool they are building doesn't work out and Anthropic has a pretty good developer to put on other projects.