Ahmed El-Kishky

And I think it's the same situation for AI.

AI has made things a lot more accessible, but I don't think that devalues the low-level understanding of how things work, fundamentals of coding, fundamentals of algorithm.

Uh, like right now, for example, uh, we still have human judges that say, Hey, this code is what I want.

This is what I need.

This is why I think it's like useful.

Um, and that comes from, you know, a good education, good experience on your own.

Um, and I think it's hard to predict the future, but I find it difficult to believe it'll be a situation where, um,

You just don't need an education.

I think humanity will always need education.

It will always need the ability to, you know, think and grow and reason.

They also need to adapt to a ever-changing world.

And I think AI is now a part of this world.

I think there will always be competitions that are human-focused.

No one wants to watch an AI play chess against another AI these days.

They want to watch humans play chess.

But I do think there is a world where competitions change as well.

Maybe in addition to the algorithmic stuff, the algorithmic growing competitions, maybe there's a couple new problems where to solve the problem, it's not only very fundamental algorithms and data structures, but maybe it incorporates an AI somewhere in there to solve a more complicated problem.

I think the ActCoder competition was a really good example of that.

You can sort of build out, you know, strategies and the AI can maybe come up with strategies as well.

So maybe there's some sort of harmonious meshing of like the two.