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Fixed impossible-to-one-shot instructions for twelve-days JS problem#10

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@Mike-Dax Mike-Dax commented Oct 15, 2025

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I would 'fix' this upstream, but the repo doesn't take contributions.

A human in a learning context would read the tests, then realise the need for the extra arguments, but from the information in the instructions and the scaffold alone, this is impossible to one-shot. Every model I've tried has simply injected the 'answer' string in, then it fails the tests, then most of the time they can get it on the second pass.

I don't think whether it's 0 or 1 indexed, or whether there's a trailing newline is really a good 'software engineering' test. I think having a trailing newline and it being 1 indexed is weird and if the models get that correct first go, it's probably data contamination. Lets remove those ambiguities.

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