Knuth's paper is 100% in the training set, so while your result is decent, it's undoubtedly tainted. But let's look at the output anyway: > ...the activity of

Knuth's paper is 100% in the training set, so while your result is decent, it's undoubtedly tainted. But let's look at the output anyway: > ...the activity of programming becomes less an act of issuing commands and more an act of communication directly contradicts: > The computer is, after all, an obedient but uncomprehending servant... If programming becomes "an act of communication" how can an "uncomprehending servant" make heads or tails of what I'm telling it? And I get that the two aren't exactly contradictory here, but this implied claim would certainly require at least a throwaway sentence. > When we write with exposition in mind, we are compelled to confront ambiguities that might otherwise remain hidden. I'm being a bit nitpicky, but this is a non-sequitur; we aren't necessarily required to confront any ambiguities, even when we're trying very hard to be expository. The counter-examples I'm thinking of at the moment are contrived (amnesia, my four-year-old niece trying to tell a story, etc.) but I mainly take issue with the word "compelled." > its logic unfolding in a manner that mirrors the way one might naturally explain the solution to another person People explain things in all kinds of weird circuitous ways, so while this (as all AI-generated output) seems interesting prima facia, it's actually kind of a dud when you think about it for more than 5 seconds. > Vague assumptions must be made explicit; convoluted steps must be reorganized into simpler, more digestible ideas. and > ...ambiguities that might otherwise remain hidden... directly contradicts: > ...whatever precise instructions we provide It seems like the computer can somehow encode "ambiguities" and "vague assumptions" as "precice instructions." How, exactly, does that work? (Spoiler: it doesn't, it's gibberish.) On the other hand, if you read Knuth's first few paragraphs, he clearly has a point in mind; I'd even say he's being a bit wordy, but never equivocating. In fact, by the fourth paragraph, he's almost giddy with excitement.