Show HN: Advent of Code CLI
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Show HN: Advent of Code CLI
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#2> Tool to automate downloading and submitting advent of code problems.
Well... the biggest use case I can think of is automated, AI assisted, problem solving. Which isn't really aligned with the spirit of AOC. In fact they politely asked people not to, if I'm not mistaken.
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#3> Tool to automate downloading and submitting advent of code problems. Well... the biggest use case I can think of is automated, AI assisted, problem solving. Which isn't really aligned with the spirit of AOC. In fact they politely asked people not to, if I'm not mistaken.
the first usecase I thought about was the tryhards that want to save every second :D ... idk there could be a legitimate usecase
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#4Clever, I've automated input fetching years ago but never considered automating submission too, thanks for the idea.
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#5> Tool to automate downloading and submitting advent of code problems. Well... the biggest use case I can think of is automated, AI assisted, problem solving. Which isn't really aligned with the spirit of AOC. In fact they politely asked people not to, if I'm not mistaken.
the first usecase I thought about was the tryhards that want to save every second :D ... idk there could be a legitimate usecase
I guess they could just ditch the competetive rankings altogether now with AI coding assistants. Keep the star system to keep track of what you did yourself, at most.
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#6> Tool to automate downloading and submitting advent of code problems. Well... the biggest use case I can think of is automated, AI assisted, problem solving. Which isn't really aligned with the spirit of AOC. In fact they politely asked people not to, if I'm not mistaken.
the first usecase I thought about was the tryhards that want to save every second :D ... idk there could be a legitimate usecase
That's exactly what it's. Anyone trying to rank (and even if not) had a tool such as this built since AoC's origins years before AI coding solutions. Seems nowadays for many people any kind of automation implies AI assistance.
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#7> Tool to automate downloading and submitting advent of code problems. Well... the biggest use case I can think of is automated, AI assisted, problem solving. Which isn't really aligned with the spirit of AOC. In fact they politely asked people not to, if I'm not mistaken.
This won't really make a difference in that regard. If you wanted to use AI, you could copy the input/output or just use their API directly.
I personally use a solution like this because I'm just plain and simply lazy.
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#8Do we really need a CLI to replace Cmd-S and a copy/paste command?
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#9Do we really need a CLI to replace Cmd-S and a copy/paste command?
This is probably for people who are trying to get on the leaderboard.
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#10Do we really need a CLI to replace Cmd-S and a copy/paste command?
This is probably for people who are trying to get on the leaderboard.
Author here. I am actually participating pretty causally at advent of code and don't try to get into the global leaderboards (I wouldn't be able to, even if I would try).
I build the tool for myself last year because I like the comfort of not having to switch between terminal and browser. As I wanted to use it this year again so I decided to put it into a separate repo and to share it here.
But I see the point that this a special kind of laziness not everyone can relate to :)