A few weeks ago, a huge story shook the competitive programming world. Headlines everywhere asked the same question: is this the last human champion? Even local Serbian newspapers joined the debate, wondering if the recent AtCoder World Tour Heuristic Finals would be the final time a person could defeat an AI.

I went to Warsaw to meet the man who pulled it off — Psyho. We talked about the contest itself, what he knew about the AI bot going in, and how he managed to come out on top.

If you don’t already know, Psyho is the greatest heuristic competitive programmer of all time, with over 20 years of experience. He was also one of the first employees at OpenAI, where he worked on the Dota bot — one of their earliest landmark projects.

We cover all of that, and more, in the longest episode yet!

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