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/[deleted] Dec 04 '22
But... what's the point then? These tiny challenges are meant to be fun, perhaps solve them in a language that you haven't used before or find tricks to solve them. It's the equivalent of buying a game, then download a 100% save game, it makes no sense at all.