Opening up a tab to quickly solve the problem with ChatGPT in order to climb the leaderboard is the modern Tragedy of the Commons.

I decided to give it a go both ways and I found GPT a huge impediment with day one. It did a terrible job and I found it far easier to do myself. I think it's possible to finesse but it'll take more effort than simply "solve this." It didn't help that part two of day one is a fantastic example of a spec causing ambiguity through a lack of detail – I actually wonder if this was deliberate to throw LLM-based approaches off. (Note: There is zero threat of me ever being on the leaderboard as I will never be awake at 5am in December.)

It's a tough day 1, I hope it doesn't scare off too many people. Normally day 1 is just some variation of "add numbers in a list", but this year has a mean pt 2 and a few traps for people to fall into.

I wonder how long the global leaderboard will stay up before it gets hidden due to people solving with ChatGPT?

Is there any language that makes breaking out code into separate files as simple as maybe just importing a file. c and cpp i guess with quote includes, even that is annoying with header files and linking args when compiling.

that's cool but also sounds nothing like aphex twin. sort of four tet-ish maybe