Don Knuth, himself, mentioning using Claude Opus 4.6 that helped him resolved a difficult problem. https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

"I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days."

So, is GenAI still generating pure garbage, Knuth an idiot, that likely doesn't know what is he doing? 🤔

@xoofx the truth is probably in between somewhere, it's likely sometimes a useful tool to help get yourself out of your own circular thinking patterns 👀
@profan yes, it is not binary