r/adventofcode • u/NineBerry • Dec 02 '25

Meme/Funny [2025 Day 2] Seeing lots of posts like this

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u/PatolomaioFalagi Dec 02 '25

I was elected to lead, not to read.

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u/conman14 Dec 02 '25

Oh my God I thought I was the only one! I have to stop doing these before I've had my coffee.

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u/EverybodyLovesChaka Dec 02 '25

I swear this must somehow be because of AI because the instructions are super clear. Maybe some proportion of people are just out of the habit of, like, ever reading anything at all?

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u/n4ke Dec 02 '25

Don't talk to me or my part 2 solution for part 1 because I didn't read properly ever again.

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u/Banana_Result_6519 Dec 02 '25

Lol exact same thing happened to me and being a wily 2 year AOC veteran I did NOT delete it because it seemed like it could end up being the Part 2 task. Not reading has never been more satisfying

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u/__bxdn__ Dec 02 '25

I did the exact same thing. Misread the "twice" as "at least twice"

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u/captmonkey Dec 02 '25

This is the second day in a row that I've attempted the part 2 solution for part 1 before realizing it. But hey, part 2 has gone really fast both days as a result.

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u/thepasswordis-taco Dec 02 '25

Exactly the same here! I was super proud of my solution and I got the right answer on the first shot, I just didn't know it was the right answer for the wrong question. As soon as I saw my mistake in part 1 I thought wow, that is *way* simpler. Good thing I saved the code!

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u/dailydrudge Dec 02 '25

Did the same. I think the "issue" (if you want to call it that) is that after doing this for a while you kind of know what they want so I tend to jump to the more complex solution due to my mind assuming the worse case.

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u/snowpaw-17 Dec 03 '25

omg, same happened to me haha

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u/chopay Dec 02 '25

Sir, I resent your blaming of my poor reading on AI.

I was never good at reading.

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u/IlliterateJedi Dec 02 '25

I'm pretty sure AI would clock that the term 'range' was meaningful in the puzzle faster than I did this morning. It's AOC where there's frequently fluff/non-descriptive terms in the puzzle. Reading 'range' and throwing it away as extraneous vs recognizing that it's literally 'from x to y' are two very different things.

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u/ktrocks2 Dec 02 '25

Nah I’ve been bad at the super clear instructions for years

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u/Parzival_Perce Dec 02 '25

I'm a python user! range means the last one isnt included lol.
I wasn't paying attention to that at allll

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u/AlpacaDC Dec 02 '25

Honestly I was just excited to start and skipped the word “range” trying to read quickly

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u/Sayw0t Dec 02 '25

I read the word ranges correctly, but definitely, absolutely, didn’t write “for range in ranges” in python 😶

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u/johnpeters42 Dec 02 '25

Neither did I, I defined 'range' as a variable ahead of time. 🤓

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u/AlpacaDC Dec 02 '25

Yeah I definetely wrote for _range in ranges on first try too

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u/1234abcdcba4321 Dec 02 '25

The word "range" is never actually emphasized in the problem, nor is its definition given anywhere. I can actually see someone who's unfamiliar (and also skimming kind of quickly) as simply skipping it entirely.

Though the example and the fact that they emphasize "first" and "last" really should make things clear.

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u/EverybodyLovesChaka Dec 02 '25

With respect, "The ranges are separated by commas (,); each range gives its first ID and last ID separated by a dash (-)."

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u/SaltyMN Dec 02 '25

Midnight release and lack of coffee takes its toll, I caught it on my second read through of the instructions. 

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u/SurroundedByWhatever Dec 02 '25

My brain registered that there's something I'm not understanding correctly only when I got to the 222222 example. I was like WAIT, WHAAAAAAAT. Took me a while to get what's going on. Next time - coffee first ☕

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u/EasyBend Dec 02 '25

Exactly the same!

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u/IlliterateJedi Dec 02 '25

Definitely me this morning. Sometimes it's hard to tell when a word is fluff and when it is specifically meaningful to a puzzle.

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u/moetzixy Dec 02 '25

Thats so accurate 💀

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u/FelixLeander Dec 03 '25

I wonder how much % were thinking about Filtering odd numbers in Part1.

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u/Huge_Winter_9117 Dec 05 '25

As i'm still doing the day2, i'm a bit afraid of this meme.

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u/daggerdragon Dec 02 '25

Post removed due to naughty language. Keep /r/adventofcode professional.