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by flanbiscuit 341 days ago
so many things

First, there's a world coding championship?! Of course there is. There's a competition for anything these days.

Why is he exhausted?

> The 10-hour marathon left him "completely exhausted."

> ... noting he had little sleep while competing in several competitions across three days. "I'm completely exhausted. ... I'm barely alive."

oh! That's a lot.

> beating an advanced AI model from OpenAI ...

> On Wednesday, programmer Przemysław Dębiak (known as "Psyho"), a former OpenAI employee,

Interesting that he used to work there.

> Dębiak won 500,000 yen

JPY 500,000 -> USD 3367.20 -> EUR 2889.35

I'm guessing it's more about the clout than it is about the payment, because that's not a lot of money for the effort spent
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chiwilliams 341 days ago
He's retired, so I'm guessing more about the clout. Or even just "love of the game"? He had a fairly popular tweet thread a couple years back where he wrote out 80 tips for competitive programming -- that feels less likely to be clout based
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magicalist 341 days ago
> I'm guessing it's more about the clout than it is about the payment

to be fair he also said

> "Honestly, the hype feels kind of bizarre," Dębiak said on X. "Never expected so many people would be interested in programming contests."

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hungmung 341 days ago
> I'm guessing it's more about the clout than it is about the payment

Yeah I'm not in tech but I've seen his handle like 3 times today already, so he's definitely got recognition.

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