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AI systems show weaker correlations between competitive-programming performance and broader coding ability than humans do.
Tamay Besiroglu · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“kind of coding problems or being a good engineer is often correlated with solving competitive coding problems but in AI systems the correlation isn't quite as strong and even”
“Even within AI systems,”
“it's the case that, you know, the strongest systems on competitive programming are not even the ones that are best at actually helping you code.”Play from 33:21Report a misattribution
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