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        <h2>AI-Powered Competitive Programming: My HackerCup 2024 Experience</h2>
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          <strong>Date</strong>: January 24, 2025, 1PM ET
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          <strong>Speaker</strong>: Anton Pidkuiko, Software Engineer, Meta
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          <strong>Location</strong>: Online
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          In this talk, Anton shared how he built an AI agent that ranked #1 in the finals of Meta HackerCup 2024 (AI division). Anton developed a workflow that could solve the hardest competitive programming problems quickly and reliably. Anton will walk through how he used state-of-the-art reasoning LLM models, curated RAG, and leveraged cloud infrastructure to safely test and execute solutions at scale. This approach highlights the massive potential of test-time compute scaling and provides insights into AI's future role in programming.
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          Anton Pidkuiko is a Software Engineer at Meta, Reality Labs in London. He is currently working on applying the power of Large Language Models to Metaverse Avatar product experiences.
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          <strong>Watch the recording now and access Anton's presentation slides <a href="\assets\HackerCup-AI-PS.pdf">here</a>.</strong>
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