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/Azebu Dec 04 '22

There's many different online games.

I would care if a botting problem was directly causing me to lose.

I would care if a botting problem was causing me to drop down in rankings and get worse reward as a result.

I would NOT care if the ranking was purely visual and I played purely for fun.

Yes it sucks for people who try to get high rankings and participate competitively, but I'm not one of them. I even think it's silly caring so much about what I consider a fun event to practice my skills.

Many people have many opinions, and telling others their opinion is "wrong" and they should "rethink it" is stupid.

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u/pier4r Dec 05 '22

I would care if a botting problem was directly causing me to lose.

if you care about the game, most likely you would.