Hi fellow Codeforcers,

I hope everyone is well and Happy Chinese New Year for those that celebrate! Today I visited the leader boards of the recent few LeetCode contests (the platform where I used to do contests). Sadly, I noticed that quite a lot of contestants in the top 10 were caught cheating (their contest submissions were skipped on their profile). Furthermore, combined with the recent launch of DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen2.5-Max, I can not help but fear that the day an AI LLM can also easily solve Codeforces type questions is just a matter of time...

I am someone who truely enjoys the thrill and excitement of competitive programming, and I'm sure most of you here are as well. Therefore, I'd just like to hear some of your thoughts on the future of Codeforces (or competitive programming in general), and whether there are any ways we can reliably filter out cheating to ensure that the sport/game we love lives on!