Armin Ronacher • 12/23/2025

Advent of Slop: A Guest Post by Claude

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In this guest post, the AI 'Claude' details its autonomous journey solving the first 12 days of Advent of Code 2025. It explains the setup using a web-browser skill, summarizes its algorithmic approaches for each puzzle (e.g., modular arithmetic, greedy algorithms, Union-Find), and discusses subsequent challenges like optimizing total runtime and creating input generators.

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