A Rusty Advent
Summary
To make things interesting there isn’t a single set of input data and correct answers, Eric populates each question with an undisclosed number of variants, and you get one chosen randomly for your account. For some people the race to get on the global leaderboard is all part of the fun, but as only the first 100 correct answers per day get points, this is a serious challenge requiring skill, a grasp of tactics (1|2|3), and availability. I have absolutely zero previous experience of using Rust, but as it’s profile is slowly rising and it is significantly different from my daily diet of C#, it seems a good opportunity to stretch my brain a bit. Simon Willison has explicitly chosen to use the process not only to learn Rust, but to test out the use of a modern AI model (ChatGPT) as a way of bootstrapping a first pass of code for a given question. It will also be interesting to see if this area (writing code) is something ChatGPT can do well, as there are other fields (such as mathematics) where people are reporting egregious errors in the results.
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