International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) Gold Medalist here. I too did competitive programming for years. I pride myself on writing beautiful code that is succinct, effective, and efficient.
Yet I find myself using AI coding agents more and more. In this day and age, your choice is to either use them, or be stomped into the ground by programmers who do.
AI still can't write code at my level of quality, but it can do so at adequate quality now; and sadly, that is "good enough" for the real world.
Yet I find myself using AI coding agents more and more. In this day and age, your choice is to either use them, or be stomped into the ground by programmers who do.
AI still can't write code at my level of quality, but it can do so at adequate quality now; and sadly, that is "good enough" for the real world.