Lol - Toping the leaderboards has always been about "Cheating". Scraping the website for the question, having a "Advent of Code" setup that includes submission,

Lol - Toping the leaderboards has always been about "Cheating". Scraping the website for the question, having a "Advent of Code" setup that includes submission, and autogeneration of tests. If using AI to autocomplete the code makes it faster.. technically they deserve to be on the leaderboard. Now it becomes pre-vectorization, enforcing code standards on the LLM, somehow enabling it to spit out the code .002ms faster to be on the leaderboard etc. etc. People need to understand that coding is just a tool for a job. The great thing about programming as a tool is new tools are constantly coming out to make you faster. If these people are using the best tools possible, how can one hate? Maybe you need to design the questions alittle better if it goes against the "Spirit" but it's not cheating....