[mkbelieve]

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[Deukhoofd]

It's far closer to "getting someone else to do your work for you" than it is to using tools. That's always been looked down on in competitions.

[bslanej]

Have you tried using code generated by an LLM? It rarely runs at all until you fix it yourself.

It reminds me of how ezines would publish source codes to run exploits with slight errors so script kiddies couldn’t run them if they didn’t know how to fix them.

[anonymousab]

It seems that these tests had a rule about not using generative AI from the start. So it would be more like someone entering a fingerpainting contest and using a paint brush.

EDIT: Oh, I misread, that was the USACO competition which had the explicit rule.

[Jtsummers]

> All other Internet use is forbidden. This includes email, chat, web search, code forums, and generative AI such as CoPilot or ChatGPT.

https://cccgrader.com/rules.pdf

It was against the rules.

[vunderba]

No. The better analogy would be if you placed a hidden outline of the drawing in advance and traced over it during the "competition".

[titaphraz]

No. The guy showed up in Bows & Arrows contest with M1 Abrams.

[Legend2440]

Bigger question: Why are universities running bow & arrow contests in a world full of M1 tanks?

[ToucanLoucan]

I am genuinely curious why people like this are still making this argument long past the point where anyone who is even slightly informed realizes it's garbage.

This is some "the earth is flat" shit in 2025.

[timewizard]

It's like entering an art contest using a collection of stencils created by other people and used without attribution or credit.

So, really, they're screwing over more than two groups of people at the same time. I guess that is some kind of progress.

[jagger27]

HN has such an impeccable knack to optimize towards the least human interpretation of any given topic. You reflect your idols well.