ThePrimagean’s Twitch coding competition, which featured teej_dv, roxkstar74, and bashbunni, was well worth the hype, with all sorts of hilarity taking place in the livestream.
After the video of Streamer teej dv returning the same value for the function he used in the URL Shortener challenge went viral, it was probably one of the most talked about incidents.
The fact that the creator’s deception went unnoticed at the time added to the comedy and outrage for a variety of viewers. Continue reading to learn more about what was arguably Twitch’s largest coding competition.
Primagean presented the competitors with a new challenge about two hours into the stream. He also clarified that there are no real limitations on how the streamers complete the challenge, and that they are free to do so however they see fit.
After going over all of the rules of the challenge, Primagean added that the language that the programmers use is crucial to their success.
Following the randomizer’s assignment of languages, teej dv rejoiced in receiving PHP, the language best suited to this challenge.
The construction of the encoding and decoding side of things would be the most time-consuming aspect of this challenge. teej_dv, on the other hand, skipped this step and simply wrote the code for the program to return the same value it received.
This meant that the streamer used the desired result as the source value to get the desired result.
The contest was held on Leetcode, an online coding practice software that didn’t check for the presence of decode encoded algorithms; instead, it checked that the result was what the algorithms would have produced.
Viewers appeared to be split, with some believing teej dv exploited a legitimate flaw in the challenge to win, and others believing he cheated outright. The majority of viewers thought Leetcode’s developers should have done a better job when creating these challenges.
teej_dv is a core developer for NeoVim who prefers to stream when working on open source projects. Despite the fact that coding streams is still a very small part of Twitch, the coder has made a name for himself by developing innovative plugins and core features.
