Advent of Code Solve Times
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For the last decade, Advent of Code has posted daily programming problems at midnight during the month of December. The first 100 people to solve part 1 and part 2 of the problem are enshrined on the day’s leaderboard.
In 2024 solve times decreased drastically. Before 2023 the five fastest part 1 solves were 23s, 26s, 28s, 28s, and 29s. This year there were forty solves under 20s. Still, some of the trickier problems require human assistance.
Using Claude to avoid drudgery is great — they wrote the css for this post! — but having an LLM complete this contest on its own feels unsporting.
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