https://github.com/joeshaw/advent2022

Advent of Code 2022. Using ChatGPT to generate solutions.
https://github.com/joeshaw/advent2022

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Advent of Code 2022. Using ChatGPT to generate solutions.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/joeshaw/advent2022
• Owner: joeshaw
• Created: 2022-12-05T22:22:49.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-01-24T19:23:15.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-21T16:52:20.498Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: advent-of-code, advent-of-code-2022, chatgpt
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 714 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Exercises from the [2022 Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/2022).

This year I decided to try something different: prompt [ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/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!

![](chatgpt.png)