Did I miss where they talk about how the AI "coder" worked? because based on what I've heard from programmers it just would lie the first few times. Was a human allowed to fix mistakes that the AI made?

Seems like the model was specifically tuned for this maybe?

I feel like I'm missing information as to whether or not I should be impressed by the AIs performance.

fucking articles these days, no link to nothing, just bunch of copy paste text hype from twitter
here's link to problem: https://img.atcoder.jp/awtf2025heuristic/en.pdf
here's link to live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG3ChQH61vE

edit: from stream 39:00 first solution by openai was after 15 minutes first human solution was after 38 minutes and it was 2x slower than initial openai solution

edit2: from stream 7:20:12 winner is telling live that he slept 8-10h over last 72h, openai models are crap given he don't know what he's doing there, his code is crap and he doesn't know why it's working so well

Then he laid down his ~~hammer~~ keyboard and died.

The last human code master.

Having just read the problem, I'm curious how o3 solved it (and the human too tbh). My experience with LLMs says they'd be absolute complete crap at this, it's a very hard and open-ended problem. Intuitively I'd say it would just end up doing random changes tryjng to improve its score.

I think I could write the "trivial" solution but anything beyond seems... difficult. Congrats to the winner!

How do you win at coding?

Getting Kasparov v. Deep Blue vibes here.

I don't read this as a win. One man finished in front of OpenAI and many, many, many finished behind OpenAI. If this is the future of coding, it's bleak indeed.

The top 1% of developers will probably be OK no matter what, it's the rest of the crowd who isn't an award winning developer that are probably in trouble.