Mike Krieger: I've joined AnthropicAI as their Chief Product Officer

Anthropic desperately needs a product to differentiate itself it seems to me. Basic LLM foundation Models are getting commodotized fast and it seems there are diminishing returns setting in, despite what some of these CEOs say in podcasts.

I think they are too safety focused. Their recent emails explainging all the rules and disclosures in their terms of services I have to provide if I use their product and the far-left responses that I get from their LLM is something I would use personally, but not something I would use in a business product that I would deliver to customers by using their api.

When you’re trying to run a business, why get involved with vendor created headaches. It’s not competitive unless the LLM responses are way better.

I know it has been fashionable to have one, but why does a company truly need a Chief Product Officer anyway? Is it for creating revenue-generating ideas? Users essentially pay when they believe they receive immense value for their money. I don't think you need a CPO to tell you what will give users this value. You could just talk to the users or see their error logs if you don't already understand their pain. As I see it, the CPO role is just another parasitic prune-worthy role that delivers negative value because they keep piling on substandard new products at the expense of sacrificing the quality of existing products.