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> AtCoder Heuristic optimization contest

Optimization space that has been automated before LLMs. Big surprise, machines are still better at this.

This feels a bit like comparing programming teams to automated fuzzing.

In fact not too rarely developing algorithms involved some kind of automated algorithm testing where the algorithm is permuted in an automatic manner.

It's also a bit like how OCR and a couple of other fields (protein folding) are better to be done in an automated manner.

The fact that now this is done by an LLM, another machine isn't exactly surprising. Nobody claims that computers aren't good at these kinds of tasks.