I'll be honest, while it's possible the article is genuine,at some point I felt/realized it seemed like an ad for the book, and made the story feel like it was not genuine and more like a contrived example of why the book is so useful and not real (again, not claiming real vs not real,just the vibe I felt) so I stopped reading.
> I'll be honest, while it's possible the article is genuine
No, there's not really much chance of that:
>> “Dada, real planners use SAT and its relatives for timetabling, chip layout, and routing for the same reason.”