Yes https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medieval-peasant-only-work...

I had a similar discussion, half-jokingly, about a legal ban on coffee in workplaces. Drinking it is optional, but non drinkers get disadvantaged and really need to join to keep up.

Sam tweeted "taking care of my kid in the hospital":

https://x.com/sama/status/1895210655944450446

Let's not assume that he's lying. Neither the presentation nor my short usage via the API blew me away, but to really evaluate it, you'd have to use it longer on a daily basis. Maybe that becomes a possiblity with the announced performance optimizations that would lower the price...

highly likely they have millions from the stock alone, assuming they didnt sell

I got this working with my LLM tool (new plugin version: llm-anthropic 0.14) and figured out a bunch of things about the model in the process. My detailed notes are here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/llm-anthropic-014/

One of the most exciting new capabilities is that this model has a 120,000 token output limit - up from just 8,000 for the previous Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and way higher than any other model in the space.

It seems to be able to use that output limit effectively. Here's my longest result so far, though it did take 27 minutes to finish! https://gist.github.com/simonw/854474b050b630144beebf06ec4a2...

At the risk of sounding insensitive: an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure—this is one of those things that if it's a problem someone is experiencing, that thing is not their real problem, which is a deep failure somewhere else, way, way back.

The unvarnished truth is that the answer to your question ("how do you stop your wife and/or kids interrupting you every 30 seconds?") for many people is "I don't". They don't stop them, that is. Because they don't have to. Because they didn't marry someone who interrupts them every 30 seconds and then have kids with them and then raise those kids to be the kinds of kids who interrupts them every 30 seconds.

This author is deeply deeply misunderstanding other humans. They are applying a "it worked for me, therefore it works for all" mentality. And worse yet, coming to the wrong conclusions.

You do not need to be an extrovert at work to get ahead. Full stop.

Does it help in some ways? Sure, but you can be equally successful as an introvert as long as you are able to communicate clearly when needs demand it. Plenty of excellent engineers speak to almost no one, but write excellently.

I've been in this industry for decades, I'm extremely introverted (autistic), I make 750k+ a year and run large projects. I never once "went extroverted at work".