Red-Green-Code

Cal Newport, a longtime critic of digital distraction, has been turning his sights on AI.

In the AI coding assistant era, we can onboard an AI assistant much like a human programmer: by pointing it to documentation and code.

Roman Elizarov noticed something different about the 2024 Advent of Code: AI is reshaping competitive programming, not just in benchmarks or papers, but in real life.

Last week wrapped up the dynamic programming tutorial for this year.

Over the past four months, we covered the key ideas in dynamic programming and solved a few practice problems.

Last week, we looked at a dynamic programming counting problem, Climbing Stairs.

For one subcategory of dynamic programming problems, the goal is to count the number of ways to do something.

Solutions to LeetCode problems of Medium or higher difficulty often require a key insight.

Earlier this year, we solved LeetCode 53: Maximum Subarray, which asked us to find the sum of the subarray (contiguous non-empty sequence of elements) with the largest sum.

Many LeetCode problems involve moving around a maze or grid.