> Please don't use AI / LLMs (like GPT) to automatically solve a day's puzzles until that day's global leaderboards are full. By "automatically", I mean using AI to do most or all of the puzzle solving, like handing the puzzle text directly to an LLM. [...] (If you want to use AI to help you solve puzzles, I can't really stop you, but I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you.)

If the writer wants to pollute their own event with this weak distinction, they can. My concern is that it's just feeding confusion and rationalizing about cheating in other areas.

Perhaps throughout the next 5 years it will be a cliche to hear "I didn't use the AI to cheat; I only used it as an aid." from cheaters.