US EditionMeet the World's Best Programmer: A Polish Man Who Beat ChatGPT
TOKYO, JAPAN, JUL 21 – PrzemysBaw Dębiak won the AtCoder Finals by a 9.5% margin over OpenAI's model after solving a 10-hour complex optimization problem in a top programming contest.
- Przemysław Dębiak, a Polish programmer known as Psyho, triumphed in the Heuristic category of the 2025 AtCoder World Tour competition, which took place in Tokyo last week, outperforming OpenAI's AI system in the process.
- The competition lasted 10 hours and involved solving a complex optimization problem, marking the first direct AI-human coding contest with AI finishing second.
- Dębiak scored 1,812,272,588,909 points, edging out OpenAI's AI with 1,654,675,725,406 points, increasing his lead from 5.5% to 9.5% in what he called a slim win.
- After the victory, Dębiak tweeted 'Humanity has prevailed ' and admitted exhaustion, while OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman congratulated him publicly.
- The win highlights human ability to outperform AI in strategic programming for now, but rapid AI development suggests future contests may see AI dominance.
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It is widely expected that AI will outperform humans in a wide range of efforts, a reality that will surely impact our world in countless ways. As far as coding is concerned, it seems that AI models are not yet fully ready, as we learn that an exhausted Polish programmer defeated "an advanced OpenAI AI model" in a 10-hour coding competition. The feat of the extraordinary encoder could soon prove impossible to replicate.
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