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Gemini Was Not Wrong

A short note on trusting, checking, and being surprised by an AI-assisted Jane Street puzzle solution.

Gemini 3.0 Pro Solved the Jane Street Puzzle

Three weeks ago I was trying out the December Jane Street Puzzle and I was unable to solve it. Naturally, let’s ask AI to solve it. Copied the puzzle and conversed with Gemini and it gave me a suboptimal solution and asked it to check its work. Its answer didn’t make any sense to me. I wrote it off. I checked on the morning of the first and lo and behold, GEMINI WAS RIGHT.

Gemini came up with the correct solution, accurately answering the puzzle that knowing the Java-lin thrower was actually a losing strategy. I let my ego and cognitive dissonance get the best of me and I didn’t trust it. AI is really starting to get good and we’re living in an amazing era in history.