Alex Zhang and others saw a similarity between GPU programming and competitive programming, but Alex did not claim that their skills are transferable.

“but i met mark i met mate i met a bunch of other people that were very involved in the community and then mark had pitched this idea called popcorn which was now what you see as the leaderboard today but the general idea was like i think all of us had this like intuition that gpu programming is like very similar to if you guys have done like competitive programming it's it's not i don't mean to say like they're transferable”

“skills”

“is”