Simon Willison 3/4/2026

Quoting Donald Knuth

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A blog post quotes Donald Knuth's reaction to learning that Claude Opus 4.6, an AI model from Anthropic, solved an open problem he had been working on for weeks. He expresses shock and joy, noting it may revise his views on generative AI and celebrates the advance in automatic deduction and creative problem-solving.

Quoting Donald Knuth

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