> considerable effort on making it less LLM-friendly this year

Wastl himself denied that this is the case[1]. This is a lie.

> Other tasks required studying the input data

Always been the case for AoC, how is that different from other years?

We have a clear example of a set of tasks that state-of-the-art LLMs cannot perform. We are doing science, for once. Why do we need to get into full conspiracy mode?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/18bp8id/why_d...