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The competition was held in Tokyo and Przemysław Dębiak won after 10 grueling hours.
This week, the Atcoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic was held in Tokyo, a programming competition that pitted human coders against an advanced AI, reports Ars Technica . Open AI sponsored the competition and fielded a specially developed variant of the O3 language model.
The chatbot was pitted against the twelve highest-ranked human programmers in Atcoder's ranking program. Both AI and humans were given 600 minutes to tackle a complex optimization problem of a kind that demonstrably has no perfect solution.
In the end, Chat GPT came in second place, beaten by Polish programmer Przemysław “Psyho” Dębiak. His solution scored 1.81 trillion points, while the Open AI model scored 1.65 trillion points. Ten of the other human programmers scored between 1.11 and 1.44 trillion points. The bottom spot went to Japanese coder “Jirotech,” who only scored 430 billion points.
After three days of intense competition culminating in the marathon session, Przemysław Dębiak was “completely exhausted, barely alive,” he wrote in a post on X.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-model-in-world-coding-championship/
This week, the Atcoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic was held in Tokyo, a programming competition that pitted human coders against an advanced AI, reports Ars Technica . Open AI sponsored the competition and fielded a specially developed variant of the O3 language model.
The chatbot was pitted against the twelve highest-ranked human programmers in Atcoder's ranking program. Both AI and humans were given 600 minutes to tackle a complex optimization problem of a kind that demonstrably has no perfect solution.
In the end, Chat GPT came in second place, beaten by Polish programmer Przemysław “Psyho” Dębiak. His solution scored 1.81 trillion points, while the Open AI model scored 1.65 trillion points. Ten of the other human programmers scored between 1.11 and 1.44 trillion points. The bottom spot went to Japanese coder “Jirotech,” who only scored 430 billion points.
After three days of intense competition culminating in the marathon session, Przemysław Dębiak was “completely exhausted, barely alive,” he wrote in a post on X.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-model-in-world-coding-championship/
