By Bryan Hay

A Lafayette College computer science team, competing in the largest programming competition participated by all major universities and colleges in the world, performed with distinction and exceeded expectations.

(LR) Prof. Frank Xia, team advisor, Eliso Morazara ’25, Peter Li ’23, and Lekso Borashvili ’23

Each year, more than 2,500 teams from North America compete in regional and divisional programming contests. Among them, approximately 50 top teams are invited to the North America Championship to compete for the advancement to the

AI pair programming tools, designed to speed up development, bring benefits ranging from suggestions for simple lines of code to the ability to build and deploy entire applications, but the pitfalls are significant.

In addition to improving productivity by alleviating some of the more mundane coding tasks, developers who use AI pair programming tools experience less frustration and can focus on more satisfying work, according to a GitHub survey of 2,000 developers. An array of these tools exist, including this year’s releases GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer and Tabnine. They joined a long list of existing AI-powered bots such as Kite