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nltoday at 12:49 AM1 replyview on HN

How do we know in advance if something it going to be hard enough?

For example I have a bunch of closed PRs on my Vibe-Prolog project that took multiple attempts to get right: https://github.com/nlothian/Vibe-Prolog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3...

As a specific example: https://github.com/nlothian/Vibe-Prolog/pull/214 which implements https://github.com/nlothian/Vibe-Prolog/issues/204

I'd be very interested if it is eligible!


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hackmaximtoday at 5:21 AM

Something like this is reasonable. To clarify, we can't support arbitrary tasks yet on our submission platform; the tasks have to belong to a set of supported repositories. But tasks of this difficulty level generally tend to be hard enough.

You can't know for sure what is going to be the right difficulty in advance; however, you can definitely develop intuition for it as you make more tasks and better understand the model's strengths and weaknesses!