[Don Knuth - Claude's Cycles](https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf)

Software Engineering Lives On!

Since the public release of GPT-3, LLMs have been integrated into many kinds of knowledge work, including software engineering. With the current pace of innovation, will knowledge work become obsolete?

Created: Mar 3, 2026 · Last Modified: Mar 11, 2026 · 11 min · Aleem Isiaka