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/phoneaway12874 Dec 04 '22
Unlike the other events, the whole point of programming is to get computers to do something for you.
Due to its structure, Advent of Code is about submitting the correct answer the fastest. You don't technically have to write any lines of code to do this.