>> so I struggle to see how it could be the point of the exercise I think you make a mistake in assuming "the" point, as in, singular. From Advent of Code's ow

>> so I struggle to see how it could be the point of the exercise I think you make a mistake in assuming "the" point, as in, singular. From Advent of Code's own website - 'People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.' We also have seen people use them as an excuse to start doing something in a new language, and, per this post, to play with Github Copilot and understand what it's doing. So...it's really what you want to make of it. -My- point was simply that if there's an ML model trained with all sorts of approaches devs use to solve sliding window style problems, and it manages to solve the problem but still misses such a generally useful optimization, it does call into question what it was trained on.