Reading last years entries, this image decompression oneliner outputs its own logo when passed the hash of its source code?! Pretty neat.
bcardarella · 1h ago
> Increased submission quantity and quality
So everybody just LLM'd this, right?
AlotOfReading · 1h ago
I didn't find them useful when I wrote my entries. LLMs get confused with code that "looks like" other code, and that intentional misdirection is half the fun of a good IOCCC entry. Plus, the morality filters get annoying once you obfuscate the code. Plugging an unsubmitted entry into Gemini, it refuses to even explain it because it thinks it's malware.
s-macke · 1h ago
LLMs can help you analyze the code, but not write it. Their ability to obfuscate is quite limited and uninspired. The last IOCCC was in 2020, so we've had plenty of time to work on it.
mattigames · 1h ago
Vibe obfuscation, all the cool kids are doing it.
w-ll · 1h ago
i guess that should make vibe de-obfuscation as easy
_kb · 1h ago
For an obfuscation comp, I love the fact they explicitly refer to and do not rewrite "index.html web pages for each winning entry".
Reading last years entries, this image decompression oneliner outputs its own logo when passed the hash of its source code?! Pretty neat.
So everybody just LLM'd this, right?