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JohnKemeny • yesterday at 6:54 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I went to ICPC's web pages, downloaded the first problem (problem A) and gave it to GPT-5, asking it for code to solve it (stating it was a problem from a recent competitive programming contest).

It thought for 7m 53s and gave as reply

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patrickhogan1 • today at 12:13 AM

1. What was your prompt? 2. Why did you give it to GPT-5 instead of GPT-5 Thinking or GPT-5 Pro?

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CamperBob2 • yesterday at 8:06 PM

Sounds like a bug. Did you try it again (or with another leading-edge model) and get a similar result?