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AI has changed programming forever. It has changed Advent of Code and the way I work. What’s life going to be like when AI can do my job, better than me?

I thought this was just a puzzle to see if I knew about modulo arithmetic… but then it turned into a puzzle about VERY LARGE NUMBERS! Also, why do I bother with Java?

It was an obsession, it was a challenge, it was a lesson. The Advent of Code is an annual coding event that runs from the first to the twenty-fifth of December, but instead of chocolate treats, this advent calendar delivers delicious daily coding puzzles… although you don’t necessarily need to code to solve them. (The header image is from the Python Discord.) My family thinks I was insane for doing this. And toward the end, I pretty much agreed with them. The last weekend was grueling, and I spent most of the last weekend before Christmas trying to solve particularly twisty puzzles. A lot of people dropped off at that point. ...