Corey Knowles

The world's most elite programmers trained for years to compete at ICPC, the Olympics of coding.

This year, OpenAI's system solved all 12 problems, outscoring every human team in the world finals.

Today, we're joined by one of the researchers that made that happen.

Welcome, humans, to the latest episode of The Neuron.

I'm Corey Knowles, joined as always by Grant Harvey.

Most recently, and what's brought us together today, though, Ahmed was a part of the team behind OpenAI's historic win at the International Collegiate Programming Contest, where their system solved every problem in the world finals, marking the first time an AI has defeated all human teams.

Ahmed, welcome to The Neuron.

Thank you for having me, Corey.

First off, congratulations.

How did it feel when the moment that the system cleared that 12th problem and you realized, you know, wow, we've just made history?

Is that what you expected?

That seems so exciting and fun, like, just like playing high school basketball or something.

How did OpenAI get into doing these competitions in the first place?

I know this is the second big one we've seen fall this year, right?

Okay, so let's talk about a tool that's completely transformed how I personally work.

That's Whisperflow.

Imagine being able to write full articles, emails, even take complex notes just by talking.

That's what Whisperflow lets me do.

It's hands-free writing that's smart, accurate, and ridiculously fast.

For me, it solved a decade-long problem.