Hello Everyone. I've got something to say about the absolute circus happening on LeetCode lately.

LeetCode used to be this awesome community where people had each other's backs, We were all in it together, trying to level up our coding skills and help each other out. But lately? Some of these newbies have rolled in thinking they're hot shit, and they're ruining it for everyone with their narcissistic bullshit.

Let me break it down for you. I've been busting my ass writing solid code and explanations. Yeah, sometimes I get help from my buddies or colleagues, or I stumble across something useful in a blog or YouTube video. But I always make damn sure I understand every line before I share it. I used to pour my heart out explaining my thought process, where I screwed up, how I fixed it, the whole nine yards.

But you know what? That shit takes time. Time I don't have, but I still wanted to help out the new coders who were struggling like I used to. So I started using GPT. I'd give it my solid intuition, a quick overview of my approach, and some pseudo-code. And let me tell you, these AI tools might be dumb as rocks on their own, but give 'em a little nudge in the right direction, and they're freaking gold.

The explanations it churned out? Exactly what I wanted to say, but with fancy formatting that'd make your eyes pop. It was perfect for helping beginners wrap their heads around tough problems. And it let me write out multiple approaches in no time without wanting to tear my hair out.

Everything was going smooth as butter until some jackasses started treating me like I'd committed a capital offense. They'd spam my comments with "AI! AI! AI!" like they'd cracked the Da Vinci Code or some shit. Yeah, no shit, Sherlock! I used AI to format it. But the intuition? The approach? The code? That's all me. That's my hard work right there.

You want to see an AI fry its circuits? Ask it to solve a medium or hard LeetCode Contest problem from scratch. You'll be lucky if it spits out a brute force solution that a toddler could've come up with.

And you know what really grinds my gears? The people pointing fingers at me are the same cheaters who copy-paste other people's code just to keep their precious streaks alive. They don't even try to understand it! I tried taking out the explanations, and suddenly everyone's cool with it. What the actual f ** k? The part that was helping beginners the most was what bothered you?

I see these clowns waking up at the ass-crack of dawn just to farm likes on the Problem of the Day like it's Instagram or something, dipsh1ts: LeetCode ain't gonna land you a job because you've got a bazillion worthless internet points.

I even started explicitly telling people NOT to upvote my posts. I'd delete and repost stuff once it hit 40-50 upvotes just to avoid the drama. But did that stop the haters? Hell no!

Here's the truth: Not everyone's a coding prodigy who can glance at some spaghetti code and instantly grok it. Not everyone wants to mindlessly copy-paste garbage just to keep a streak going. Some people - shock, horror - actually want to learn! I've been there, and that's why I put in the effort to break things down.

But these trolls just had to ruin it. And get this - these aren't some snot-nosed 14-year-olds following the herd. These are grown-ass adults in their 20s acting like children!

The only people who should be questioning posts and AI usage are the mods and the folks actually providing solutions. But no, they're silent as the grave while everyone else shits all over someone's hard work just because it looks "too easy."

Yeah, there's been drama in the past with bots and vote manipulation. I get it. But when someone's sharing their own code, their own solution, their own damn explanation - how is that wrong? Is AI really the boogeyman here? Should I start chiseling my solutions onto stone tablets to make you happy?

Look, maybe I'm missing something here. If I am, please, enlighten me. What's so freaking terrible about using AI to polish up a solution that was helping tons of people every single day? They accused me of farming likes, so I started begging people NOT to upvote. I even made an alt account to post stuff just so they couldn't accuse me of chasing clout.

So come on, Please help me out here. Where did I screw up? What am I not seeing? Because from where I'm standing, this whole situation seems very twisted.