Hi fellow Codeforcers,
I hope everyone is well and Happy Chinese New Year for those that celebrate! Today I visited the leader boards of the recent few LeetCode contests (the platform where I used to do contests). Sadly, I noticed that quite a lot of contestants in the top 10 were caught cheating (their contest submissions were skipped on their profile). Furthermore, combined with the recent launch of DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen2.5-Max, I can not help but fear that the day an AI LLM can also easily solve Codeforces type questions is just a matter of time...
I am someone who truely enjoys the thrill and excitement of competitive programming, and I'm sure most of you here are as well. Therefore, I'd just like to hear some of your thoughts on the future of Codeforces (or competitive programming in general), and whether there are any ways we can reliably filter out cheating to ensure that the sport/game we love lives on!
They are already doin it :-\
offline contests is the only way to prevent cheating. Its impossible to detect ai use. Online platforms will just be a tool to practice for offline competitions.
It won't. Just as humans survived the Industrial Revolution, Chess Survived the rise of game engines and computers; CP will find its way to survive.
However, maybe we see some changes in the future in the style of competitions or some adaptation to this new era of AI.
Curious to learn more about how AI has affected Chess and how Chess survived it. I'm not really following that community.
chess survived the same reason how running in olympics survived even after invention of cars.
chess doesnt give u job, codeforces rating do , atleast in india with so much population
unfunny — it seems — joke removed.
They got disqualified..
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I don't think so.
It would be nice to see competition divergenting from problem-solving as computer will become potent to outperform most contestants if such scenario ever happens. Thus we will enjoy pure art of solving puzzles devoid of unnecessary (for its development) stress and haste.