Human vs AI: The Sleep-Deprived Dev Who Beat OpenAI’s Code Bot
· 41 min · Season 3 Episode 43
Show notes
An OpenAI-backed coding agent. 12 elite competitive programmers flown to Tokyo. A 10-hour marathon solving an NP-hard puzzle in front of a live stream. And a very sleep-deprived human still manages to beat the AI at its own game. In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott Millar, Will, Seamus and Arnav break down the World Tour Finals heuristic contest where a human edged out a custom AI built just for competitive coding.
In this episode, we explore:
• How the competition was set up so both humans and a custom OpenAI agent had to race the same brutally hard optimisation problem under tight time…
