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Are AoC and LeetCode still worth it?
1 points by cutthegrass2 636 days ago
With the advancements in LLM technology, which can now solve Advent of Code challenges with minimal input and easily handle LeetCode medium-level problems, do you think the tech industry will shift away from using these types of coding challenges for candidate interviews? Or to put it another way, what is the value now in spending time to get good at solving these types of problems, given that LLM's are now advanced enough to solve them?
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    which can now solve Advent of Code challenges with minimal input
Citation? The best writeup I found of people trying this for AoC 2023 had a mediocre success rate on the first 12 problems:

https://www.themotte.org/post/797/chatgpt-vs-advent-of-code

I fell into the trap of watching some clickbait'y YT videos and this one [1] stood out, with a specific demonstration of solving an AoC problem from the 2023 problem set.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-6TmHdW7uM

When have they ever been worth it?