Sniping Cheaters Episode 2: A Philosophical Rant↵
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Background/Context:↵
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After posting a bunch of these CF blogs, many people in my university discord asked me to leave and quit CP (since I allegedly used LLM's during contests -- if I did why am I still green).↵
Now that I have qualified for the ICPC ECNA (regional contest) twice in a row, I want people to understand that I have never cheated on this account since the start of my journey in college.↵
Finally, I really don't care if a lot of people on this platform used AI on the contests, if I lose rating because I couldn't solve a problem, then I view that as a personal **SKILL ISSUE**.↵
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Why should one bother doing competitive programming?↵
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1. To get cracked at coding interviews↵
2. Understand basic programming ball knowledge↵
3. Improve problem solving skills through pattern recognition↵
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### The hard truth↵
Codeforces rating is just a number, and it unfortunately doesn't objectively represent your skill level (because of how easy it is to cheat). Just because you are a master on CF, that doesn't mean that you're going to get a high paying job because of that. ↵
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#### I'm done ranting, now here's the cheater: [user:Prashant_ksy,2026-10-13]↵
He participated in the DeepInfra Round 1 and placed #141 with 2457 performance: https://codeforces.me/contest/2271/standings/participant/248292029#p248292029↵
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Yes, he could have improved from Expert -> GrandMaster over the course of a year.↵
(Last time, I didn't include a lot of evidence supporting my arguments with [user:AK_YZY,2026-10-13], other than the fact his submissions looked too clean for a pupil/speciailist.) So here is the evidence:↵
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1. His normal code looks like this, you can check his old contests too. There are no spaces between (x=y, a+=b, etc...): [submission:393988643]↵
2. But his submissions for C and D have plenty of breathing room like an AI wrote the code with a good code standard (a = b, a += b, etc.): [submission:393991411]↵
3. On problems E and F, he probably told the AI to change its coding style to matching his own to be less suspicious.↵
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If you don't buy my argument, lets keep an eye on this guy in future contests and accumulate evidence against him.↵
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Background/Context:↵
------------------↵
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After posting a bunch of these CF blogs, many people in my university discord asked me to leave and quit CP (since I allegedly used LLM's during contests -- if I did why am I still green).↵
Now that I have qualified for the ICPC ECNA (regional contest) twice in a row, I want people to understand that I have never cheated on this account since the start of my journey in college.↵
Finally, I really don't care if a lot of people on this platform used AI on the contests, if I lose rating because I couldn't solve a problem, then I view that as a personal **SKILL ISSUE**.↵
↵
Why should one bother doing competitive programming?↵
----------------------------------------------------↵
1. To get cracked at coding interviews↵
2. Understand basic programming ball knowledge↵
3. Improve problem solving skills through pattern recognition↵
↵
### The hard truth↵
Codeforces rating is just a number, and it unfortunately doesn't objectively represent your skill level (because of how easy it is to cheat). Just because you are a master on CF, that doesn't mean that you're going to get a high paying job because of that. ↵
↵
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#### I'm done ranting, now here's the cheater: [user:Prashant_ksy,2026-10-13]↵
He participated in the DeepInfra Round 1 and placed #141 with 2457 performance: https://codeforces.me/contest/2271/standings/participant/248292029#p248292029↵
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Yes, he could have improved from Expert -> GrandMaster over the course of a year.↵
(Last time, I didn't include a lot of evidence supporting my arguments with [user:AK_YZY,2026-10-13], other than the fact his submissions looked too clean for a pupil/speciailist.) So here is the evidence:↵
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1. His normal code looks like this, you can check his old contests too. There are no spaces between (x=y, a+=b, etc...): [submission:393988643]↵
2. But his submissions for C and D have plenty of breathing room like an AI wrote the code with a good code standard (a = b, a += b, etc.): [submission:393991411]↵
3. On problems E and F, he probably told the AI to change its coding style to matching his own to be less suspicious.↵
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If you don't buy my argument, lets keep an eye on this guy in future contests and accumulate evidence against him.↵
