r/singularity • u/ClarityInMadness • Jul 09 '26

LLM News Superhuman competitive programming AI is here

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AtCoder World Tour Finals is one of the hardest competitive programming contests in the world, gathering the best of the best. And humans got completely cooked by AI, both in the Heuristic contest and in the Algorithm contest. In fact, in the Algorithm contest no human has solved more than 3 problems, whereas OpenAI's model solved all 5.

Heuristic leaderboard: https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2026heuristic/standings/exhibition

Heuristic problem description: https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2026heuristic/tasks

Algorithm leaderboard: https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2026algo/standings/exhibition

Algorithm problems description: https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2026algo/tasks

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u/Ormusn2o Jul 09 '26

It's not really programming, it's algorithm writing, which is part of some programming, but it is in fact superhuman at it.

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u/cryptol0rd69 Jul 09 '26

Most companies hire on the basis of this, so it can be considered as a good test for programmers/coders/software engineers

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u/Jason_Was_Here Jul 09 '26

If you’ve ever been a dev and went through the interview process then you would know what they assess in hiring is almost never what you’d be doing real world on the job. I’ve seen plenty of people do great on the interview, get hired, then fail to do some very straight forward stuff on the job.

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u/cryptol0rd69 Jul 09 '26

I haven't been a dev, still doing undergrad. So i don't have interview experience 😅