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Human wins coding contest … but AI finishes a close second
The Polish programmer managed to finish in first place by a margin of just over 9%, with the AI placing second — ahead of all of the other human contestants.
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Polish programmer beats OpenAI's custom AI in 10-hour marathon, wins World Coding Championship — possibly the last human winner
Przemysław “Psyho” Dębiak, a Polish programmer and former OpenAI engineer, defeated the company’s own advanced AI model in the 2025 AtCoder World Tour Finals. In a grueling 10-hour coding contest, he ...
Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
While Dębiak won 500,000 yen and survived his ordeal better than the legendary steel driver, the AtCoder World Tour Finals ...
A programmer beat an OpenAI tool at coding. He says the AI made him push himself to win.
"Congrats to the champion for holding us off this time," OpenAI wrote after its model came second at the AtCoder Heuristics ...