Ahmed El-Kishky

But like we competed in Japan at Atcoder earlier this year.

And it was obviously on like Japan time.

And we were trying to see how well our models could do on like these new types of programming competitions where there isn't really a correct answer.

There's only like how good you can do, how well you could do.

So the competition was like up until like, you know, three, four in the morning.

It was a 10 hour competition, which is crazy.

Oh, man.

But everybody just like stayed up all night.

Like we had this like channel on Slack and like hundreds of researchers were just following along.

It was in Japanese, so we couldn't understand it.

But we could hear like OpenAI's name being like yelled out.

But people were just like following along, looking at the solutions.

It really felt like a sports game or like a high school basketball game.

This was the third, actually.

Third?

Yeah.

So I'll tell you a little bit about it.

I joined OpenAI a couple of years ago.

And, like, programming competitions were, like, my first big project I was working on.

When I first started, like, I was like, okay, like...