you'd be as well if you were melting at that rate!

But why

ChatGPT

The program who can't answer anything that is not the stackoverflow answer you get when you Google your prompt? I don't follow.

ChatGPT solved many of the AoC 2022 problems with no assistance, and those are written in an even more obfuscated style than GCJ. I imagine the LLMs of this summer and next summer would blow through most of the early rounds of GCJ with ease.

AoC tasks are much easier than usual Competitive Programming tasks. AoC is pretty much undergraduate class level (whereas some Competitive Programming problems ended up being turned into actual papers) and the main difficulty in tasks is in implementing the solution rather than coming up with a tricky idea. Also, in AoC time complexity doesn't matter at all - all you need is any solution. Classic Competitive Programming problems have both a memory and a time limit. Most of them have a simple brute force solution but the trick is finding an efficient algorithm.

However, I can see Google execs thinking the same and using this explanation as the reason to close the competition.

what is that?

Is this on twitter, please link if so

agree

This is great!

yep

I'd like to hear about how to write software orbiting a black hole?

As long as you don't change orbits, you should be fine.

"Falsehoods programmers believe about black hole orbits..."

I mean, you're sort of there already? The galactic barycenter is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*.

Very carefully indeed

I think Amazon would have a better rep if they didn't have a stack ranking system.

Every competitive has a stack ranking system whether they admit it or not.

They put lipstick on a pig but everyone's getting ranked and the lowest performers getting weeded out.

The whole "People get fired even if they're doing a good job just by being a low performer on a strong team" is an edge case that happens INCREDIBLY rarely but when it does gets all the attention.

Is this down?