Overview

• Dębiak finished with 1,812,272,558,909 points against OpenAI’s 1,654,675,725,406, clinching the title by roughly a 9.5 percent margin.
• The Heuristic division challenged the top 12 coders with NP-hard optimization problems in a 10-hour marathon under identical hardware and programming language rules.
• Dębiak confirmed he relied solely on Visual Studio Code with basic autocomplete and did not employ any AI assistance during the contest.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman congratulated Dębiak on X and the company hailed its model’s runner-up spot as its first top-three placement in a premier coding event.
• Competition organizers and analysts noted that human creativity and endurance prevailed in a format where AI excels at rapid algorithmic optimization.