Proposal: Anthropic Should Pair Claude with Donald Knuth to Finish TAOCP
latticecut · x · 2026-08-06
A user proposed an interesting idea: Anthropic should send an engineer to act as an assistant to computer science legend Donald Knuth. The goal is to leverage Claude paired with Knuth's expert guidance to potentially accelerate and witness the completion of the remaining volumes of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) in the coming years.
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