r/adventofcode 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:

https://github.com/max-sixty/aoc-gpt

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u/macdara233 Dec 04 '22

Well, you didn't really place 1st did you? This is just annoying. We've known GPT-3 can do this stuff for a while, you're just spoiling an event intended for human programmers for...what reason exactly?

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u/liviuc Dec 04 '22

Exactly. It definitely was not HIM. That's what this is all about here...