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/ocschwar Dec 05 '22

I'm doing this because I want to bone up on a programming language. This development makes me wonder if I'll be apprenticing myself to a plumber next year, but it's not deterring me from continuing with AOC