Last Human Win?
At the 2025 AtCoder World Tour Finals in Tokyo, Polish coder Psyho (Przemysław Dębiak) outscored OpenAI’s internal AI model in a 10-hour Heuristic Contest. The task involved solving an NP-hard robot grid challenge without tools, references, or libraries. His solution beat the AI by 23% and drew praise for originality and intuition. Once a lead developer at OpenAI, Dębiak may have authored the last human victory in elite programming. As AI performance accelerates, his win feels both historic and possibly unrepeatable. Full story →