The great thing about being the author is that you get to go “BUURRRNNN” seven days before everyone else.
More seriously—I don’t think Aris Katsaris was being overconfident. Methods is meant to be solvable; correct solutions should snap firmly into place. The vast amount of overcomplication and hint-denial and stretching that goes on elsewhere shouldn’t make people less confident if they’re perceiving actual solutions, because those still snap just as firmly into place.
The great thing about being the author is that you get to go “BUURRRNNN” seven days before everyone else.
More seriously—I don’t think Aris Katsaris was being overconfident. Methods is meant to be solvable; correct solutions should snap firmly into place. The vast amount of overcomplication and hint-denial and stretching that goes on elsewhere shouldn’t make people less confident if they’re perceiving actual solutions, because those still snap just as firmly into place.