Re:Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
by thomasahle on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:42AM
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It's a question of whether copilot can be "creative". I'm mit sure, but it did manage to solve some of the harder leetcode questions here https://youtu.be/FHwnrYm0mNc and I'm curious how it will fare on the later advent of code problems.
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Re:Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
by callmekit on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:18AM
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The exact answers to leetcode questions are probably included many times in the Copilot dataset, in many programming languages. Fresh Advent of code problems are much more interesting.
Re:Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday December 02, 2021 @05:38AM
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Copilot is trained on examples of programs, so it will not be able to produce
programs unlike any it has seen before.
This will not be easy to see in any kind of coding exercise. It is very hard to come up with coding problems with solutions that have never been written before, at least for a coding competition like Advent of Code. For example, we don't know of polynomial time solutions to the Travelling Salesman problem but it wouldn't make sense to have that as a coding challenge in Advent of Code, or Leetcode, or anywhere else.
Since nobody has ever produced a program solving such a problem, Copilot will not be able to produce a solution either, but it's not designed to do that anyway.