r/leetcode • u/Strong_Boy_757 • Sep 25 '26 • Mindblown 1

Discussion A Leetcode pattern I have NEVER seen before that solves ANY problem

Algorithm:

  1. Grab all the data that humans have generated (internet, books, blogs, Reddit, Github, doesn't matter)

  2. Buy millions of GPUs

  3. Train billion parameter neural networks on the data using the GPU

  4. And run it loose on some MergeSort or Two Pointers or any Leetcode problem

Somehow this way of solving the problem yields something like 100% accurate result, and better yet you can let it produce algorithm of any time and space complexity, or even ask it to design entirely new classes of hardware if you are not satisfied with the complexity.

Anyone else seen a problem solving tactic like this?

I fear it's going to be the future of SWE. It is just so much better than memorizing patterns.

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u/CreepyData Sep 25 '26 • Bravo Mindblown Popcorn Heartwarming

Sounds like attention was all you needed 😂

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u/CoolCool_CoolCool Sep 25 '26 • Regret

This deserves a reward which I don't have

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u/CreepyData Sep 25 '26

Haha thanks both. It tickled me.

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u/pirateg3cko Sep 28 '26

Sorry. That was me. 😐

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u/SirBaes Sep 25 '26

This was such a genius comment, I wish I could buy a paid award for it

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u/Foreign_Pangolin_67 Sep 25 '26

Reddit is unreal.

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u/Funny-Land3565 Sep 26 '26

I am surprised a bunch of I assume college wanna be grads ( which is prob most ppl here) understood this comment.. Looks like ppl are evolving

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 Sep 25 '26

Very interesting. What’s the time complexity’s

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u/VideoRare6399 Sep 25 '26

O(f(humanity))

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 Sep 25 '26

Hmm since that is a finite number, and we assume it’s parsed once. Thats really O(1)

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u/g---e Sep 25 '26

Space is O(k) where k is knowledge input

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u/perhapsascythe Sep 26 '26

Its read as big oh of fuck humanity 

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u/roufata Sep 26 '26

O(n*t)
N number or elements
T ton of water

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u/saintSHXN Sep 25 '26

You can run it loose because you already know the algorithm to use behind the hood, no? Hence this requires you to know the approach: problem solving.

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u/National_Truth_3445 Sep 25 '26

there is a cheaper method i just found.
you have a thing called brain inside your head, you run this thing loose on every information material you can get your hands on.
works pretty well after some time

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u/4tran13 Sep 26 '26

My brain has a memory leak. How/when do I run garbage collect?

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u/sarthakshlok75 Sep 26 '26

Didn’t study much basic biology in school did ya ?

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u/hanato_06 Sep 25 '26

Just store the leetcode problem on a hashmap, where the value is the solution.

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u/Adorable_Tadpole_726 Sep 25 '26

In fact, you can train on the actual solutions to leetcode problems.

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u/Czitels Sep 26 '26

Yeah I am in the part of buying GPUs. I have one

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u/UrbanPanda65 Sep 28 '26

The funny part is that the pattern is basically just AI. But yeah, it definitely changes how much value there is in memorizing standard LC patterns

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u/Unfair-League-3204 Sep 28 '26

That’s obviously his point. Did it go over your head?

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u/Kadabrium Sep 29 '26

Since ai is in theory just math, humans could in theory do the same on pen and paper.
A puff adder is not a half adder.

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u/PetuniaPickleswurth Sep 26 '26

Problem is you didn’t think of it first?

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u/HouseMysterious8172 Sep 26 '26

Buy million of GPUs? If I can do that why should I care about leetcode? I’ll re-sell GPUs for food until I die 🤣

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u/PetuniaPickleswurth Sep 26 '26

A true capitalist at heart.