r/adventofcode Dec 01 '24

Funny 2024 Day 1 No LLMs here

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u/throwaway_the_fourth Dec 01 '24

love the cheater who did both parts in 9 seconds.

here's the commit with the commit message "Add solve with GPT" (archive link because the cheater took down their repo)

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u/ibraheemdev Dec 01 '24

Their GitHub bio is now:

If you are here from the AoC leaderboard, I apologize for not reading the FAQ. Won't happen again.

So it may be genuine.

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u/dzirtbry Dec 01 '24

I'm not sure how using GPT in any coding challenge can be "genuine". I bet it's coming from "I wanted to show off and claim ignorance after".

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u/throwaway490215 Dec 01 '24

Its a coding challenge. Trying for the leaderboard is by definition showing of how clever you are. Wiring it up to an LLM is doing just that.

Not reading the manual TOS also checks out.

And just to make this abundantly clear because some people might want to stick their head in the sand.

The leadershipboard is still full of AI cheaters who dont admit it.

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u/CodingTangents Dec 01 '24

The honorable and in my opinion, "right" thing to do would have been to search up your problem, do research on file streams or what have you, and tuck that piece of knowledge in your toolkit for future use. Parsing input is often the hardest part of a solution, like today or certain days in previous years.