For a while now, I have been doing badly in contests, so when I finished today's div. 3, I was feeling pretty good about myself. I decided to look for people that placed near me to see how my rating would get affected.

I went to check some of the code people had submitted, and realized just how much of it was ai.

There are full pages of people with only ai code. People who started cp a week ago getting AC on F. People who only solved 800s suddenly solving 2000+ rated problems.

This scares me. How are we supposed to compete fairly in an environment where everybody and their grandma uses ChatGPT or Gemini to solve whichever problem they want for them? I hope that there will be days that in contests no one uses ai, rather than everyone starting to do so.