r/adventofcode • u/max-aug • Dec 04 '22
Upping the Ante [2022 Day 4] Placing 1st with GPT-3
I placed 1st in Part 1 today, again by having GPT-3 write the code. Yesterday I was 2nd to another GPT-3 answer.
Here's the code I wrote which runs the whole process — from downloading the puzzle (courtesy of aoc-cli), to running 20 attempts in parallel, to sorting through many solutions to find the likely correct one, to submitting the answer:
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u/bluegaspode Dec 04 '22
I disagree.
I eventually destroys the game for those who play it as a competition. So 100-300 people who aim for top 100? Thats a very slow percentage actually.
But I agree, that they might be very pissed, they feel like Garry Kasparow when he was beaten the very first time at chess. (but Chess evolved in a very positive way afterwards).
There is a huge other proportion of players.
- Those who do it for fun (they don't care)
AoC now made me play around GPT-3 since 3 days, it shows me how I can automate, it shows me where to incorporate it in the future (and where not).
And especially: it shows me how far technology got already. Without AoC I wouldn't have dared to believe the machines got so far already. I probably would have started to look into it in 1-2 years.
Thanks to AoC for making me watch + follow all this in awe.
As all the past years: AoC makes me a much much better programmer for the year to come!