Advent of Code 2025 Will Have 12 Problems and No Global Leaderboard
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The Advent of Code 2025 will have 12 problems instead of 25, and will no longer feature a global leaderboard, prompting a positive reaction from the community who see it as a way to maintain the event's longevity.
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And goddamn that global leaderboard was just LLM-fodder the last few years anyway
Some time ago I was actually thinking about the exact thing in his statement. I mean even if the problems are structurally almost the same each year, it must be a huge time investment to come up with the stories and give them a little twist each year.
Either Eric should chill out and make it smaller, while still keeping the fun or some rich guys should pay him lots of money to make this his full-time job. The former is probably the healthier path for eric and the game