Thinking about getting good at competitive programming, especially on a platform like CodeChef? It can seem like ...

For example, Microsoft and the AI lab OpenAI have adapted the latter’s language-generating program GPT-3 to function as an autocomplete program that finishes strings of code.

"Programming has two parts to it: you have 'think hard about a problem and try to understand it,' and 'map those small pieces to existing code, whether it's a library, a function, or an API.'" ...

OpenAI has won gold at the 2025 International Olympiad in Informatics, placing first among AI systems and outperforming most human contestants in the global coding challenge.

Alongside AI programming tools, it provides general-purpose large language models that compete with OpenAI’s algorithms. The company also offers tools that enterprises can use to build AI agents.

This was the scene at a recent event in London to promote “Hour of Code”, an initiative organised by Code.org, a non-profit, aimed at rousing interest in computer programming—or “coding ...