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> Should I use AI to solve Advent of Code puzzles? No. If you send a friend to the gym on your behalf, would you expect to get stronger? Advent of Code puzzles are designed to be interesting for humans to solve - no consideration is made for whether AI can or cannot solve a puzzle. If you want practice prompting an AI, there are almost certainly better exercises elsewhere designed with that in mind.

And yet I expect the whole leaderboard to be full of AI submissions...

Edit: No leaderboard this year, nice!

horsellama•8m ago

there’s no global leaderboard this year

stOneskull•7m ago

i don't think there is a global leaderboard this year. just private ones.

retsibsi•7m ago

Not this time:

> The global leaderboard was one of the largest sources of stress for me, for the infrastructure, and for many users. People took things too seriously, going way outside the spirit of the contest; some people even resorted to things like DDoS attacks. Many people incorrectly concluded that they were somehow worse programmers because their own times didn't compare. What started as a fun feature in 2015 became an ever-growing problem, and so, after ten years of Advent of Code, I removed the global leaderboard.

libraryofbabel•7m ago

There is no leaderboard this year, and probably AI is in part the reason — although the creator said the reason was more to do with the overhead of running it.

Whatever the reason, I think it’s the right decision for 2025.

KolmogorovComp•7m ago

> And yet I expect the whole leaderboard to be full of AI submissions...

There will be no global leaderboard this year.

d_watt•8m ago

Looks like after the AI automation rush last year, the leaderboard has been removed. Makes sense, a little sad that it was needed though.