I saw this in a post from 3 years ago. Why is it still so relevant?xd
Indeed, even when I look through older contests, it seems to me that they were more thoughtful, with unexpected solutions and interesting problems.
And now, contests are either very strange (not difficult) or very easy.
Perhaps the contest creators are giving up because of LLM users?
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The rise of ad-hoc problems took place in that period — a coincidence?
We need to have more heuristic contests :(
(not that it would matter for me, I'm still learning :p)