Request for Manual Review — abhijain565aj

Hello Codeforces administration, and MikeMirzayanov,

I am writing to sincerely apologize and request a manual review of my disabled account abhijain565aj.

During Codeforces Round 2275, I participated in the Div. 3 contest out of competition, as my rating was around 1966. I was participating only for practice and warm-up.

I want to be completely honest about what happened. While solving G. Copper Squander, I came up with the solution idea myself and wrote the solution. Towards the end of the contest, I was repeatedly making an indexing/binary-search mistake in my implementation. Since I was out of competition and was treating the contest casually, I made the poor decision to give the problem and my partial code to ChatGPT and use it to help debug the issue.

At the time, I was genuinely unaware that the AI restriction also applied to out-of-competition participation in a rated contest. I had always understood out-of-competition participation as essentially unofficial practice, and therefore incorrectly assumed that the restrictions on AI assistance would not apply. I now understand that this was my misunderstanding, and after reading the policy carefully, I realize that my action was not permitted.

I want to make it clear that I never intended to use AI to blindly generate a solution or replace my own problem solving. I had worked out the problem idea and implementation myself, and I only turned to ChatGPT when I was stuck on an indexing/binary-search bug. However, I understand that this still violated the rules, and I take full responsibility for that decision.

It was a careless decision on my part, and I sincerely regret it.

I have been doing competitive programming seriously for around three years, and this is the first time I have used external/AI assistance during a contest. The account abhijain565aj, along with my entire Codeforces history and everything associated with it, is genuinely very precious to me.

I am not asking you to disregard the rules. I am only humbly requesting a manual review and, if possible, consideration for leniency given the circumstances.

If my account is restored, I promise that I will strictly follow the AI rules in every future contest, including when participating out of competition. I have learned from this experience and will never make the same mistake again.

I sincerely apologize to the Codeforces administration and community. I would be extremely grateful if you could consider giving me another chance and helping me recover my account.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and consider my appeal.

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