The Code Written in Timefold Outsmarted the Solution Provided by ChatGPT for Devoxx Talks Scheduling

Stephan Jansen, Java Champion and Devoxx founder, tinkered with ChatGPT to “create the perfect conference schedule”. He managed to obtain feasible results for one day but not for the whole five-day conference. Geoffrey de Smet, founder of Timefold (formerly OptaPlanner), argued that the AI Assistant fails by not being able to treat soft constraints as effectively as a specialized planning library.

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