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I wonder what the future of these competitions is in the era of AI. Same for the Advent of Code.
by pelagicAustral 1y ago
I wonder what the future of these competitions is in the era of AI. Same for the Advent of Code.
- Jaxan 1y agoAdvent of Code is not really a competition. There is a ranking, but that’s not the point of it.
- pelagicAustral 1y agoWouldn't people be competing to be at the top of the ranking? I should think that the Real Madrid participates in La Liga because they want to win and not just flair their way around.
- AIPedant 1y agoAdvent of Code needs to get rid of that stupid leaderboard and display winning entrants' names alphabetically. It's not even slightly a fair competition, an entire swath of people are out of the running simply because they are too tired at 11pm (or busy with their kids etc) to solve a little puzzle. I think anyone trying to "compete" in AoC needs to reassess their priorities. Also, I like reading the "flavor text" about the elves and whatnot. Encouraging people to ignore it seems at odds with the design of AoC.
- recursive 1y agoIt's OK to compete. And it's on not to. You can ignore the leader board.
- a_dabbler 1y agoIt's more like a marathon, sure you're in a race but people don't really care about your position in it unless you're near the front. Completing it on its own gives a feeling of achievement
- gsinclair 1y agoThe difference between the AoC leader board and the La Liga table can be measured in many millions of euros.
- bashauma 1y agothese works are really gems, but this type code is very strange, and not useful for standard situation. AI devs will take more "normal and useful" code for learning their products than these "noisy and hard-reading" code.