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Re:Advent of Code 2024 by wiseowise on Sunday December 01, 2024 @08:20AM (#42288322)
Using LLM for this kind of thing is like using cheats or aim assist for online games. So yes, this is prime example of enshifittication.
Re:Advent of Code 2024 by ikesau on Sunday December 01, 2024 @10:22AM (#42288854)
enshittification isn't "things become worse" - it's the specific process of how services worsen in 3 stages:

> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

Re:Advent of Code 2024 by davidcbc on Sunday December 01, 2024 @07:22PM (#42291854)
Just because that's how it was defined in a blog post doesn't mean that it's the only way to use it
Re:Advent of Code 2024 by Terr_ on Sunday December 01, 2024 @08:13PM (#42292133)
We already have plenty of words for the ancient and generic concept of things-getting-worse, like "ruining".
Re:Advent of Code 2024 by petercooper on Sunday December 01, 2024 @09:17AM (#42288556)
I think the intent is important. Using LLMs to do well on the public leaderboard is like using cheats/aim assist. But learning how to use LLMs to solve complex puzzles independent of any sense of "competition" is more like when people train neural networks to drive a car in GTA or something - it's not hurting anyone and it can be a real learning experience that leads to other interesting byproducts.

But, yeah, don't use LLMs to try and get 9 second solve times on the public leaderboard, it's not in the spirit of the thing and is more like taking a dictionary to a spelling bee.