Comment by cogogo

As a self taught hobbyist I progressed pretty far in advent of code 2023 until I gave up and less so in 2024 but my approach seems to be close to the one described (if you dig a little deeper into the signup page) or so I imagine. I was disciplined about not asking for help with the problem itself and went to chatgpt for help with components or syntax I needed to build a function I already had in mind (which was closer to the state of the art - especially in 2023 anyway). I think the advent of code problems are really interesting and have enjoyed solving them and watching others solve the ones I couldn’t. They are a fun way to frame the course. However the real value to me is learning how to approach more ambiguous problem spaces. I am definitely interested.