This is the programmer's [John Henry moment.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)#Legend)

> John Henry's prowess as a steel driver was measured in a race against a steam-powered rock drill, a race that he won only to die in victory with a hammer in hand as his heart gave out from stress. 

chaoticalHeavy

This was a pretty excellent headline. We will sing songs about him to our children. 

Scoresby

Pretty fucking badass.  Sounds like he's wealthy from exiting openai

The winner of the contest was [Psyho](https://x.com/FakePsyho). First I've heard of him, but I'm curious about what he'll get up to next.

grimtechnet

SimpleStacker

BlokchainB

Didn't you read the article? 

You waited too long to learn programming.

Wow, I’ve been trying to learn coding and still can’t get past “Hello world”. I really need to step it up because I’m really behind.

Machiavelli23

"Humanity has prevailed (for now!)" ahahha!

"Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.

A Polish programmer running on fumes recently accomplished what may soon become impossible: beating an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a head-to-head coding competition. The 10-hour marathon left him "completely exhausted."

On Wednesday, programmer Przemysław Dębiak (known as "Psyho"), a former OpenAI employee, narrowly defeated the custom AI model in the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic contest in Tokyo. AtCoder, a Japanese platform that hosts competitive programming contests and maintains global rankings, held what may be the first contest where an AI model competed directly against top human programmers in a major onsite world championship. During the event, the maker of ChatGPT participated as a sponsor and entered an AI model in a special exhibition match titled "Humans vs AI." Despite the tireless nature of silicon, the company walked away with second place.

"Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," wrote Dębiak on X, noting he had little sleep while competing in several competitions across three days. "I'm completely exhausted. ... I'm barely alive."

"Humanity has prevailed (for now!)" ahahha!

> "Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.
>
> A Polish programmer running on fumes recently accomplished what may soon become impossible: beating an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a head-to-head coding competition. The 10-hour marathon left him "completely exhausted."
>
> On Wednesday, programmer Przemysław Dębiak (known as "Psyho"), a former OpenAI employee, narrowly defeated the custom AI model in the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic contest in Tokyo. AtCoder, a Japanese platform that hosts competitive programming contests and maintains global rankings, held what may be the first contest where an AI model competed directly against top human programmers in a major onsite world championship. During the event, the maker of ChatGPT participated as a sponsor and entered an AI model in a special exhibition match titled "Humans vs AI." Despite the tireless nature of silicon, the company walked away with second place.
>
> "Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," wrote Dębiak on X, noting he had little sleep while competing in several competitions across three days. "I'm completely exhausted. ... I'm barely alive."
>
> ...