[physicsyogi]

About a month ago, Open AI demoed a language model that does python code generation, using a natural language prompt. It was trained on Github repos.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250379

[chillee]

This is extremely impressive, but 1. It's a cherry picked demo (no paper has come out yet), and 2. This isn't really what I mean by "novel programming task".

I'm thinking more in line the type of questions you might get in competitive programming.