[drones]

I'm a part of my university's competitive programming club, and the discovery of Devin being a fraud really upset a few club members (Many people who worked at Devin.AI were elite-level competitive programmers). It shattered the illusion that being a good competitive programmer would translate into being a good engineer overall. They were the victims of market hype.

[iLoveOncall]

> It shattered the illusion that being a good competitive programmer would translate into being a good engineer overall

There was a study by Google years back that showed the exact contrary: https://catonmat.net/programming-competitions-work-performan...

[itsdrewmiller]

Not exactly - it just means google overvalued that experience in its hiring decisions. https://erikbern.com/2020/01/13/how-to-hire-smarter-than-the... explains the phenomenon ("Berkson's Paradox") well.

[sujayk_33]

It's like when a person goes too deep into CP, he just overfits in it and might just not come out of that phase, where you are given the problem and you are supposed to get the pre-defined solution.

It's not the case in real-life, the main problem is to detect the problem and then find the optimal solution. So unless you blend into it, get the test of CP, develop logic and get outside, build projects and keep moving, the field is vast, don't keep knocking same door everyday.