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fookertoday at 8:42 AM1 replyview on HN

> They just can’t do it yet.

Have you tried it or are you guessing this?


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s-macketoday at 9:03 AM

Yes, I’ve tried it. For example, this was my winning entry from a year ago [0]. The LLM only performs trivial obfuscation, not advanced transformations.

For example:

  if (x == 1 || x == 2) { ...
can be transformed into:

  if (!(2+x*x-3*x)) { ...
An LLM will do this if you explicitly ask it to, but not on its own.

[0] https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2024/macke/p...

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