OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has praised a programmer who beat the company's coding tool at a recent competition. Polish programmer Przemysław Dębiak, who competed under the name "Psyho," secured victory over an OpenAI tool at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic Contest in Tokyo. In a post shared on the social media platform X (earlier Twitter), Altman acknowledged Dębiak's win and wrote, "good job psyho." OpenAI also publicly recognised its tool's performance on X, stating, "Our model took 2nd place at the AtCoder Heuristics World Finals! Congrats to the champion for holding us off this time." The contest is an annual event organised by the Japanese competitive programming site AtCoder and was also sponsored by OpenAI itself.
What the programmer said about his win over OpenAI tools
After winning the competition, Dębiak took to X to announce the same. Celebrating his victory, he wrote: “Humanity has prevailed (for now!) I'm completely exhausted. I figured I had 10 hours of sleep in the last 3 days, and I'm barely alive. I'll post more about the contest when I get some rest. (To be clear, those are provisional results, but my lead should be big enough.)”
Later on, he shared an update on X, saying: “I'm alive and well. The results are official now and my lead over AI increased from 5.5% to 9.5%😎Honestly, the hype feels kind of bizarre. Never expected so many people would be interested in programming contests. Guess this means I should drop in here more often👀”
Altman’s praise for the winner comes after he agreed with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s prediction about how AI will change future jobs.
Earlier this week, Altman shared a post on X claiming that he resonates with much of what Huang has said regarding AI and its impact on jobs. Altman noted that while future jobs will differ greatly from the present ones, they will continue to hold value.
“Agree with lots of what Jensen has been saying about AI and jobs; there is a ton of stuff to do in the world,” he wrote.
“For sure, jobs will be very different, and maybe the jobs of the future will look like playing games to us today, while still being very meaningful to those people of the future. (People of the past might say that about us.),” Altman added.
What the programmer said about his win over OpenAI tools
After winning the competition, Dębiak took to X to announce the same. Celebrating his victory, he wrote: “Humanity has prevailed (for now!) I'm completely exhausted. I figured I had 10 hours of sleep in the last 3 days, and I'm barely alive. I'll post more about the contest when I get some rest. (To be clear, those are provisional results, but my lead should be big enough.)”
Later on, he shared an update on X, saying: “I'm alive and well. The results are official now and my lead over AI increased from 5.5% to 9.5%😎Honestly, the hype feels kind of bizarre. Never expected so many people would be interested in programming contests. Guess this means I should drop in here more often👀”
Altman’s praise for the winner comes after he agreed with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s prediction about how AI will change future jobs.
Earlier this week, Altman shared a post on X claiming that he resonates with much of what Huang has said regarding AI and its impact on jobs. Altman noted that while future jobs will differ greatly from the present ones, they will continue to hold value.
“Agree with lots of what Jensen has been saying about AI and jobs; there is a ton of stuff to do in the world,” he wrote.
“For sure, jobs will be very different, and maybe the jobs of the future will look like playing games to us today, while still being very meaningful to those people of the future. (People of the past might say that about us.),” Altman added.
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