Human programmer beats OpenAI's custom AI in 10-hour marathon, wins World Coding Championship — Polish programmer might be the last human winner

Date: 2025-07-19 18:00:00

Przemysław “Psyho” Dębiak, a Polish programmer and former OpenAI engineer, defeated the company’s own advanced AI model in the 2025 AtCoder World Tour Finals. In a grueling 10-hour coding contest, he outscored the AI by 9.5%, proving human ingenuity still has an edge, at least for now.