Keep Advent of Code LLM-Free
The Advent of Code has clearly been overrun by people feeding the challenges straight into an LLM, which the FAQ clearly says NOT to do. This is uncompetitive behavior and discourages human competitors who cannot possibly win against AI. The Advent of Code organizers need to take a stance before people lose faith in the platform and stop taking it seriously.
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December 5, 2024
The feedback regarding automated submissions has been consistent and underscores how much the community values human problem solving. I am currently organizing the various suggestions from fellow participants to present a clear path forward for the organizers.
December 5, 2024
The response to this petition confirms that many participants value the integrity of the leaderboard and want to preserve the human spirit of these challenges. This momentum indicates a strong desire for the organizers to clarify their position on automated assistance.
Reached 100 supporters
December 5, 2024
51 Comments
The even brag about being an LLM expert on their github and linkedin (which their aoc account are mostly linked to). As if they are the ones solving the problems.
I have done every challenge of all the 10 years of AoC! At the moment 466 stars and counting. I have learned so much from doing the challenges and try to inspire lots of students to participate. Those who use LLMS to get to the top of the rankings really sends the wrong message to all the wannabe developers.
I've been doing AoC for years, I happily sponsor the events and I learned a ton of new algorithms through it. Leaderboard or no leaderboard, THAT is how AoC should be used. To learn and have fun doing it. People using LLMs to win these competitions are on the same level of stupidity as people using doping to win sports events. Sad.
As someone who's been successful on the global leaderboard in the past two years, it's been extremely disheartening to see people clearly cheat with times like 14 seconds, which is clearly impossible for a human. At the very least, people with unrealistic times or people whose GitHub shows that they used LLMs to solve AoC problems should be removed from the global leaderboard.
I’m not competing this year for the sake of my sleep, but on top of everything else the LLM epidemic is a GRAVE insult to everyone else who devotes so much time and energy to this one of a kind event.
Good luck solving this problem.
Time to remove the global leaderboard.
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Keep Advent of Code LLM-Free
The Advent of Code has clearly been overrun by people feeding the challenges straight into an LLM, which the FAQ clearly says NOT to do. This is uncompetitive behavior and discourages human competitors who cannot possibly win against AI. The Advent of Code organizers need to take a stance before people lose faith in the platform and stop taking it seriously.
Updates
December 5, 2024
The feedback regarding automated submissions has been consistent and underscores how much the community values human problem solving. I am currently organizing the various suggestions from fellow participants to present a clear path forward for the organizers.
December 5, 2024
The response to this petition confirms that many participants value the integrity of the leaderboard and want to preserve the human spirit of these challenges. This momentum indicates a strong desire for the organizers to clarify their position on automated assistance.
Reached 100 supporters
December 5, 2024
51 Comments
My partner takes this competition very seriously and is one of the people who is getting bumped down - off the leaderboard - because of AI LLM inputs. Please fix this ASAP.
The even brag about being an LLM expert on their github and linkedin (which their aoc account are mostly linked to). As if they are the ones solving the problems.
I have done every challenge of all the 10 years of AoC! At the moment 466 stars and counting. I have learned so much from doing the challenges and try to inspire lots of students to participate. Those who use LLMS to get to the top of the rankings really sends the wrong message to all the wannabe developers.
I've been doing AoC for years, I happily sponsor the events and I learned a ton of new algorithms through it. Leaderboard or no leaderboard, THAT is how AoC should be used. To learn and have fun doing it. People using LLMs to win these competitions are on the same level of stupidity as people using doping to win sports events. Sad.
As someone who's been successful on the global leaderboard in the past two years, it's been extremely disheartening to see people clearly cheat with times like 14 seconds, which is clearly impossible for a human. At the very least, people with unrealistic times or people whose GitHub shows that they used LLMs to solve AoC problems should be removed from the global leaderboard.
I’m not competing this year for the sake of my sleep, but on top of everything else the LLM epidemic is a GRAVE insult to everyone else who devotes so much time and energy to this one of a kind event.
Good luck solving this problem.
Time to remove the global leaderboard.
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My partner takes this competition very seriously and is one of the people who is getting bumped down - off the leaderboard - because of AI LLM inputs. Please fix this ASAP.