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A GPT agent solved a hacker challenge in about a day that had stood unsolved for years

A GPT agent crunched through a famously hard Disobey conference hacker ticket challenge in an evening and a morning with occasional steering, a challenge unsolved in some years.

How it works

  1. A GPT agent works the famously hard conference hacker ticket challenge
  2. An evening and a morning of work with occasional steering
  3. Solves a challenge unsolved in some years

Why it’s worth knowing

Years of humans at a hacker conference had left it standing.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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