Shock! Shock! Turing Award legend & godfather of algorithms Don Knuth just dropped a paper called “Claude's Cycles” because Claude Opus 4.6 solved an open problem from The Art of Computer Programming that had HIM stumped for weeks! In just 31 attempts, the AI found a concrete construction for directed Hamiltonian cycles in odd dimensions, which Knuth and his collaborator then turned into a rigorous proof. He is now thinking of revising his views on generative AI… 🚀