Goodbye to Google Code Jam
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Goodbye to Google Code Jam
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Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#2>>After nearly 20 years of Code Jam, it's time to say goodbye. While Code Jam will not continue as planned, we invite you to participate in our Competitions' Farewell Round on Saturday, April 15 at 14:00 UTC.
Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#3Well, they announced they're shuttering it. Oddly, there is zero information as to why.
Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#4Well, they announced they're shuttering it. Oddly, there is zero information as to why .
It's being replaced by a ChatGPT-controlled competition.
Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#5>>After nearly 20 years of Code Jam, it's time to say goodbye. While Code Jam will not continue as planned, we invite you to participate in our Competitions' Farewell Round on Saturday, April 15 at 14:00 UTC.
Appears answer is staff responsible were laid off:
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-did-google-cl...
Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#6Well, they announced they're shuttering it. Oddly, there is zero information as to why .
Supposedly the recent reduction in employees mostly targeted non-profit areas and several or the managers in charge of this were fired. I guess the befit nowadays after 20 years didn't justify the cost. I doubt you can put a positive spin on it so no reason to go into details?
Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#7In general Online Rounds of coding competitions are no longer going to work. As GPT-4 had been shown to outperform humans on the coding competition tasks. You can have it assisted, but this quickly becomes a “who can afford more compute” competition.
RIP coding competitions.
Incidentally, World Finals: up to 2020, it was held in a location in the US or Europe, and has been online since. Pretty incredibly, Gennady Korotkevich has won the title every year since 2014 – except once.
Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#8Well, they announced they're shuttering it. Oddly, there is zero information as to why .
The age of men is over. The time of the bot has come.
Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#9Topcoder will also be having their final TCO this year: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/113201
Google Code Jam and TCO were the two biggest onsite competitive programming event that's not targeted at students.
This is a huge blow to the sport.
Re: Goodbye to Google Code Jam
#10Competitive coding has always been a bit of a joke, but it's a great entry vector for kids to get introduced to programming (and eventually software engineering). I'm not entirely sure how to feel about this, though. I have always been suspicious that the existence of the game of competitive coding has been used to kind of justify the "leetcodification" of the tech interview circuit, and (IMO) that can't go away soon enough.