Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

Ten hours is a decent amount of time, so I'm not too surprised the human won. LLMs don't really tend to improve the longer they get to chew on a problem (often the opposite in fact).

The LLM was probably getting nowhere trying to improve after the first few minutes.

Re: Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

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Post by hyperhello » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:21 PM UTC

burkaman wrote: post #4

317070 wrote: post #3

Does someone know the problem/challenge being solved?

https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2025heuristic/tasks/awtf2025...

I'm at a complete loss to discern why this would be a useful task to solve. It seems like the equivalent of elementary schoolers saying "OK, if you're so smart, what's 9,203,278,023 times 3,333,300,209?"

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Post by LeoPanthera » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

hyperhello wrote: post #6

burkaman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2025heuristic/tasks/awtf2025...

I'm at a complete loss to discern why this would be a useful task to solve. It seems like the equivalent of elementary schoolers saying "OK, if you're so smart, what's 9,203,278,023 times 3,333,300,209?"

It's a problem that has no perfect solution, only incremental improvements. So it's really not like your example at all.

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Post by crmi » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

Really feels like it could be an onion title.

Re: Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

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Re: Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

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Post by esseph » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:35 PM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #2

I'm old enough to remember being taught the Ballad of John Henry...

The article mentions it...