Among humans, general goal achievement and engineering or coding ability often correlate strongly with performance on coding and competitive-programming problems.

“In humans, these things are often very strongly correlated with other kind of competencies like being good at just, you know, achieving your goals or being a good coder is often very strongly correlated with solving.”

“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”