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A lot of people compete to try to get on the global leader boards, which I find quite fun, also makes me wake up at 05:30 am every day!

But yeah, this probably mostly helps for easier problems, and is quite useless when either the problem needs a cleaver construction or some trick to make the time complexity good enough.

Deepmind has a project called AlphaCode, where they got in the middle of div2 rounds on codeforces in february 2022 (virtual): https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...

In the blogpost it actually comes up with a linear stack based solution (one of the intended solutions) to a problem where the naive solution is quadratic.