Ahmed El-Kishky

Like as, you know, the model came back with a solution, they'd like, you know, eagerly submit it.

And the cool part is like,

the first 11 that were submitted, everyone was correct on the first try.

So it was mind blown.

We didn't even think that would happen.

And then we got to the last problem, and the last problem was so difficult.

We kept submitting it every 10 or so minutes, and it would be wrong.

So it was a little bit nerve wracking.

It already like four hours, it passed, it already gone to like the last hour of the competition.

And we're like, okay, we're probably like, you know, 11 out of 12 is pretty good.

You know, that's, you know, already really great.

We were looking at the scoreboards.

Um, and then like in the last, like little bit of the competition, we saw that answer accepted and it was just like something else.

It was just, it was mind blowing just seeing all 12, um,

It was, like, really a pivotal moment for, like, just AI, but also, like, all the hard work we've been doing so far.

Actually, it's kind of interesting.

We've been doing, like, you know, this year we've done several of these program competitions, and it is almost like sports.

I've never actually, like...

you know, closely followed competitive programming.

Like I tried it out in college and in high school.