Hi,

not sure if this topic has already been discussed, I might have lost something lately, sorry in this case.

On the home page of the Hacker Cup there is the following announcement, since at least a couple of weeks:

"In the 2024 Hacker Cup season, we'll allow you to compete in the human division as usual, or in the AI division in which all of your solutions must be written by a computer."

That sounds like a significant move, I would say also exciting, and a lot of question arise, from practical ones like: "same problems?", "same duration?", "human and AI division at the same time?", "how is it checked that humans do not write the code?" to other ones like "how will CP evolve in the future?".

Maybe SecondThread as first of course, or anyone else would like to comment

Coders Community,

for the ones among you that — like me — feel sad about the Google Farewell Round that will be held on Saturday, or that feel there is something wrong with this leadership decision, I would propose to put the following comment line as first line of every submission in the Farewell Round, that should not violate any rule:

// NO FAREWELL: KEEP GOOGLE COMPETITIONS ALIVE

This is clearly naive, and very likely will not reach any decision maker, and even if it does it will be certainly useless to make anybody in Google leadership change their minds. But at least, if sufficiently scaled, it would leave a tangible on-line trace of the community feeling, for a few months. And who knows, 2024 might be a better year for Google and things might change.

Last but not least, thanks a TON to MikeMirzayanov and to the Codeforces staff for keeping the competitive coding so active, and also for making available this blog where to share ideas.

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