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By ioweheralot, history, 14 hours ago, In English

History has never experienced such miraculous progress of newbie & pupil coders. Rating curves of the Great programmers from the past needed time to rise, whereas in 2025 the brains of some newbies and pupil coders have evolved so much that they are not only able to achieve good ranks and solve hard problems, but their code often ends up matching with others'

Let's get introduced to some of them!

Category 1

knows nothing but Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V and trusts AI more than anyone

Some legends found Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V too boring so they wrote a whole new python code wasting their valuable time and kept the variable names unchanged to give credit to the original author, like this one — mdharoon : 310136122

Category 2

Atleast they learned how to change variable names and browse code leakage sources during the contest!! Oops, the first guy forgot to erase the comments!

These 10 submissions are different from Category 1 but resembles each other.

And the list continues, there are hundreds of them! Even some specialists & experts!

I think soon people won't find Codeforces a trustworthy coding platform which could lead to a significant decline in participation in Codeforces rounds and also affect competitive programming culture worldwide.

MikeMirzayanov and the team should come up with a solution soon, otherwise the situation is just going to be worse than anyone might have ever thought...

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