A Polish programmer running on fumes recently accomplished what may soon become impossible: beating an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a head-to-head coding competition. The 10-hour marathon left him "completely exhausted."
On Wednesday, programmer Przemysław Dębiak (known as "Psyho"), a former OpenAI employee, narrowly defeated the custom AI model in the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic contest in Tokyo. AtCoder, a Japanese platform that hosts competitive programming contests and maintains global rankings, held what may be the first contest where an AI model competed directly against top human programmers in a major onsite world championship. During the event, the maker of ChatGPT participated as a sponsor and entered an AI model in a special exhibition match titled "Humans vs AI." Despite the tireless nature of silicon, the company walked away with second place.
"Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," wrote Dębiak on X, noting he had little sleep while competing in several competitions across three days. "I'm completely exhausted. ... I'm barely alive."
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
So …
When against an already overworked coder who hasn’t slept in days in a competition designed to be longer than a standard workday…
It’s like they tried as hard as possible to favor the AI and it still couldn’t do it.
Sxan@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
OpenAI will argue that it proves AI is superior because it doesn't need to rest. It could have kept going, immediately onto the next problem, without having to go off for 12 hours to eat, sleep, shower, eat again. And they'd be right. However, no mention was made of how good (or shitty) the ChatGPT code was, or if it even worked. IM very recent experience, it (ChatGPT) couldn't produce an algorithm that actually produced the correct output, despite being given repeated direction and refinements and expected input/output code. It was pure shit, and what it did produce was 100 lines of shitty if/else statements that could have been 50 with better logic.
I was not impressed.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’d ask why you were using a thorn. But I know the answer is going to be annoying…