I like how the OP has clarified the question is from a sports perspective! These days I see so many people asking for it as an interview prep thing.
Competitive programming from an interview perspective can just be done in 30 days if not less. Anything ahead of that is pure sport. Don't expect it to take you ahead in life.
I totally agree with you! It seems like some people really overhype the power of cp in the interview process. However, I must say that the original poster has a valid point. What do you think about it?
I'll go first,
What do you think future of interview looks like? I am not into competitive programming.
I think we might see heuristic problems coming up as interview questions, since they're open NP complete problems, the candidate's answer to them can show their creativity and core problem solving capabilities
Not current but career best in 1400s.
Stopped a few years ago. I felt it is too addictive and time consuming. I found better marginal utility doing other software engineering stuff - namely building interesting projects across tech stacks.
I guess similar to the impact Stockfish engine had on chess. People who are truly interested will continue playing. We'll see new formats come up (like 1 vs. 1 or 4 vs. 4 for eg:) where using AI models would be difficult due to greater scrutiny.
Thanks for your response, I think it would be more difficult judging if the person has used AI or not in their solution even in a 1 v 1 setting in comparison to chess. Since in chess you can detect unsportsmanship behaviour based on the rates of excellent moves played , since there are plenty of steps before winning which can be scrutinized. But in case of competitive programming, the only thing you can scrutinize is the code and perhaps time of submission. Both which can be modified to be made to look "natural".
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