I was talking with one of my friends about this, who was (is?) a quite successful competitive coder. He mentioned that the structure of the competition (a heuristic competition) tends to favor a lot of quick prototyping and iteration, much more than other types of programming competitions. Which would tend to play to AI’s current strengths more. Though the longer horizon is impressive (OpenAI’s solution regained the lead 8 hours in, I think? So it was making meaningful contributions even hours in).
I was talking with one of my friends about this, who was (is?) a quite successful competitive coder. He mentioned that the structure of the competition (a heuristic competition) tends to favor a lot of quick prototyping and iteration, much more than other types of programming competitions. Which would tend to play to AI’s current strengths more. Though the longer horizon is impressive (OpenAI’s solution regained the lead 8 hours in, I think? So it was making meaningful contributions even hours in).