Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition
Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition Jul 26, 2026 I just took part as a team of 1 (or 0, really) at the ICFP Programming Contest of 2026. TLDR - I used nothing but AI, mostly Fable, and did okay-ishly well, finishing in the top ~25 (final results will be revealed in about a month) out of ~200 teams participating. The organizers - some close friends, all incredible people - are encouraging people who took part to share a write up, which you’re reading now.
- ▪Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition Jul 26, 2026 I just took part as a team of 1 (or 0, really) at the ICFP Programming Contest of 2026.
- ▪TLDR - I used nothing but AI, mostly Fable, and did okay-ishly well, finishing in the top ~25 (final results will be revealed in about a month) out of ~200 teams participating.
- ▪The organizers - some close friends, all incredible people - are encouraging people who took part to share a write up, which you’re reading now.
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| Original publisher | the greg technology blog |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/26/doing-okayish-with-ai-at-the-ai-proof-competition.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:25:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T14:44:55.342Z |
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Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition Jul 26, 2026 I just took part as a team of 1 (or 0, really) at the ICFP Programming Contest of 2026. TLDR - I used nothing but AI, mostly Fable, and did okay-ishly well, finishing in the top ~25 (final results will be revealed in about a month) out of ~200 teams participating. The organizers - some close friends, all incredible people - are encouraging people who took part to share a write up, which you’re reading now. There are/will be a lot more interesting/technical/”real” write ups - such as this one (which is truly incredible) - and mine “can’t” really be that technical because - well - I didn’t do much but oversee AI doing the work. So in terms of pure sweat-to-thinking ratio (hmm, bad ratio), I’m at 0.
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