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Comment by fsckboy | original | Knuth reward check
[−]fsckboy · 2026-10-11 Sun 02:34 UTC · link
people are up in arms about AI/LLMs now, but I'll bet 50 years ago Knuth would have been excited a about the prospect of algorithms being so capable.
[−]madcaptenor · 2026-10-11 Sun 12:43 UTC · link
Indeed he seems to be excited about it now, after Claude Opus 4.6 solved a problem he'd been working on: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cyc...

note "now" is April 2026