**What is competitive vibe coding?**↵
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Competitive programming but you can vibe code your solutions.↵
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**Why is it superior?**↵
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1. The fun part of competitive programming remains. Competitive programming has long been criticised for not inculcating "good" programming practices. In reality, the hardest but most fun part about competitive programming is coming up with a solution. Implementing your solution is just a necessary evil for automating competitive programming contests and websites. Competitive vibe coding gets rid of this evil, since you can truly enjoy the heart of competitive programming (making observations to solve bugaboos) without writing out $680$ lines of implementation pain.↵
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2. It's more relevant for the future. AI is somewhat capable of writing small pieces of code, and it is reasonable to expect AI to be able to write clean and understandable code in $5$ or $6$ years. At this point, implementation skills will become useless. The heart of competitive programming, understanding and toying with the bugaboo to make observations and find a solution, still remains essential in terms of solving other bugaboos in your life. Competitive vibe coding trains this without emphasising on machine-replaceable implementation skills.↵
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Disclaimer 0: I may or may not have used ChatGPT to help me review my drafts to this blog post.↵
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**DISCLAIMER 1: Practicing competitive vibe coding in competitive programming contests may get you disqualified.**
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Competitive programming but you can vibe code your solutions.↵
↵
**Why is it superior?**↵
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1. The fun part of competitive programming remains. Competitive programming has long been criticised for not inculcating "good" programming practices. In reality, the hardest but most fun part about competitive programming is coming up with a solution. Implementing your solution is just a necessary evil for automating competitive programming contests and websites. Competitive vibe coding gets rid of this evil, since you can truly enjoy the heart of competitive programming (making observations to solve bugaboos) without writing out $680$ lines of implementation pain.↵
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2. It's more relevant for the future. AI is somewhat capable of writing small pieces of code, and it is reasonable to expect AI to be able to write clean and understandable code in $5$ or $6$ years. At this point, implementation skills will become useless. The heart of competitive programming, understanding and toying with the bugaboo to make observations and find a solution, still remains essential in terms of solving other bugaboos in your life. Competitive vibe coding trains this without emphasising on machine-replaceable implementation skills.↵
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Disclaimer 0: I may or may not have used ChatGPT to help me review my drafts
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**DISCLAIMER 1: Practicing competitive vibe coding in competitive programming contests may get you disqualified.**
