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Przemysław Dębiak, a Polish coder known as Psyho, narrowly defeated OpenAI’s entrant in the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 in Tokyo, highlighting the remaining edge humans have over AI in competitive coding. Despite the victory, Psyho, who previously worked at OpenAI, acknowledges the rapid pace of technological advancement that may soon see AI surpass human capabilities in this field. The competition involved solving complex optimization problems like the ‘travelling salesman problem,’ where humans currently excel in reasoning but are limited by typing speed. AI, on the other hand, can make numerous adjustments rapidly. This event underscores the ongoing shift in various industries towards AI, with expectations that AI could soon take over a significant portion of white-collar jobs.