←back to thread

FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter

(martin.janiczek.cz)
207 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 10:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
low_tech_love ◴[21 Nov 25 14:14 UTC] No.46004816[source]▶
Slightly off-topic: I have an honest question for all of you out there who love Advent of Code, please don't take this the wrong way, it is a real curiosity: what is it for you that makes the AoC challenge so special when compared with all of the thousands of other coding challenges/exercises/competitions out there? I've been doing coding challenges for a long time and I never got anything special out of AoC, so I'm really curious. Is it simply that it reached a wider audience?
replies(4): >>46004897 #>>46004910 #>>46004983 #>>46005022 #
1. some_random ◴[21 Nov 25 14:39 UTC] No.46005022[source]▶
For me, it's a bunch of things. It happens once a year, so it feels special. Many of my friends (and sometimes coworkers) try it as well, so it turns into something to chat about. Because they're one a day they end up being timeboxed, I can focus on just hammering out a solution or dig in and optimize but I can't move on so when I'm done for the day I'm done. It's also pretty nostalgic for me, I started working on it in high school.