> When challenged with the CodeContest—the battle rap torment of competitive programming—the AI solved about 30 percent of the problems, while beating half the

> When challenged with the CodeContest—the battle rap torment of competitive programming—the AI solved about 30 percent of the problems, while beating half the human competition. This was essentially a competition in the speed of programming. But if we want to discuss practical application, as in laying off armies of coders, we need to realise that there is a tremendous gap in the productivity of, let's say a solo startup founder and the productivity of a team of coders working for a multinational behemoth barely producing anything of a value over the whole sprint.