Throughout my competitive programming years, I developed valuable skills that I still use in my daily work as a software engineer. Here are some of the most useful. Please share yours in the comments.
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Competitive programming has made me lose my ability to write clean code.
Yes, there are definitely downsides of competitive programming in the "real world". I plan to write about that as well. In the meantime, this is the closest I've written about that: https://albexl.substack.com/cp/126349526