Exercises from the 2022 Advent of Code.
This year I decided to try something different: prompt ChatGPT to generate programs that solve the puzzles.
My prompts generally give a short preamble, like:
Advent of Code is a Christmas-themed series of programming puzzles. Each day there are two parts to a puzzle, with the second part building upon the first one. I will provide you with the prompt for the first part. I want you to generate a complete program in Go, Rust, or Python to solve the puzzle. The program should read its input from a file named
input.txt.
and then provide the puzzle text verbatim.
Sometimes this is enough to generate a working solution on the first try or after a couple of retries. Other times, I have to provide more hints.
In each directory there is a README that gives some commentary, the prompt I provided, and the response ChatGPT generated. Also in that directory is the (completely unmodified!) working code and the input file provided with the puzzle.
We'll see how far I get with this.
Update: I made it 6 days. On day 7, ChatGPT wasn't able to generate enough code with its limited runtime budget to solve the problem, although the code was directionally correct. After trying for a few days (and waiting out overloaded servers), I gave up. It was fun though!
