This is extremely impressive, but I do think it’s worth noting that these two things were provided:
- a very well defined problem. (One of the things I like about competitive programming and the like is just getting to implement a clearly articulated problem, not something I experience on most days.)
- existing test data.
This is definitely a great accomplishment, but I think those two features of competitive programming are notably different than my experience of daily programming. I don’t mean to suggest these will always be limitations of this kind of technology, though.
- a very well defined problem. (One of the things I like about competitive programming and the like is just getting to implement a clearly articulated problem, not something I experience on most days.) - existing test data.
This is definitely a great accomplishment, but I think those two features of competitive programming are notably different than my experience of daily programming. I don’t mean to suggest these will always be limitations of this kind of technology, though.