I have to say, I've read many out-of-touch comments on HN over the years but this is definitely among the most out there, borderline delusional comments I've ever seen!

The idea that anyone who doesn't know any code would:

1) Complete in Advent of Code at all.

2) Complete a single part of a single problem.

let alone, complete the whole thing without it being a "tremendous challenge"...

is so completely laughable it makes me question whether you live on the same planet as the rest of us here.

Getting a person who has never coded to write a basic sort algorithm (i.e. bubble sort) is already basically impossible. I work with highly talented non coder co-workers who all attended tier-1 universities (e.g. Oxford, Harvard, Stanford) but for finance/business related degrees, I cannot get them to write while/foreach loops in Python, and simply using Claude Code is way too much for them.

If you are even fully completing one Advent of Code problem, you are in the top 0.1% of coders, completing all of them puts you in the top 0.001%.