Hi everyone, I’m primojaypan — a competitive programmer who retired many years ago, back in the days before LLMs existed. When I was competing, we debugged by hand, and our only assistants were pen, paper, and sheer desperation. But times have changed.

Now, as a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction and social computing at HKUST, I’m exploring how LLMs are reshaping competitive programming — in training, problem solving, and even in how we define fair play.

About the Survey We’ve prepared a short questionnaire to understand your experiences and perspectives on the use of LLMs in competitive programming. Your input will offer valuable insights for our research.

This study is led by the team of Prof. Pan Hui (IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Tong Xin at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. We are investigating how LLM tools affect both training and fairness boundaries across different countries and skill levels in competitive programming.

Here's the Link: :https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjYtK-pJ3vCR6lwqxU7QamGFe_jf6vL7psouiQhj0d_-1SEA/viewform?usp=header

By filling out the questionnaire, you’ll also enter a random draw for a small thank-you gift! As seen in the picture. Our research has been approved by the Ethics Committee of HKUST (Guangzhou).

Global Participation & Interviews In addition to this survey, we’re conducting in-depth interviews with participants and coaches from around the world — including Russia, India, the UK, the US, Egypt, and Japan.

I’d especially like to thank macaquedev, cry, and jiangly, as well as many other amazing programmers from different regions, for taking the time to speak with our team and share their stories and insights. Your voices are helping us understand this new era of programming.

If you're interested in contributing through an online interview, feel free to reach out — we’d love to hear from you!