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By tickbird, history, 9 months ago, In English

How can you still find motivation in this game?

At the time I started CP, LLM barely solve *800 problem and most people laugh at LLM.

but now it's obviously solve ABC (like 100% of time) and maybe D, E in Div.2 within matter of minutes.

I felt delighted and fulfilled after spending an hour thinking and finally solving the problem that I couldn't. (seriously)

But now with aid of LLM it can be done like a minutes so I'm start to thinking what is the point.

I do think M still able to compete with LLM, so they have no issue but the problem is low division people.

So, I'm genuinely curious how people under orange candidate still have modification,

it feels like LLM created giant gap between somewhere at that point.

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By tickbird, history, 16 months ago, In English

specialist

Here is what it says literally,

Specialist

noun — a person who concentrates primarily on a particular subject or activity; a person highly skilled in a specific and restricted field.

"he is a specialist in Codeforces"

possessing or involving detailed knowledge or study of a restricted topic.

WOW

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By tickbird, 18 months ago, In English

For example consider following situation:

you are trying to solve some problem for practice and notice it has something to do with common idea let say: dijkstras, however implementing dijkstras is somewhat cumbersome and error-prone for novice people like me. but use of ChatGPT can be extremely helpful.

and sometimes, it provides insights that are very hard to notice and aren’t even discussed in the editorial.

also not mentioning debugging your code

do you think that is good practice? why or why not

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