You seem to have misread what I said, and are making basically the same point I did. I said that given only a single second in which to work (and given a problem specification in the form of a correct C program) then literally any human programmer will lose out to GCC. That seems unequivocally the case, and you seem to agree.

I also said that there still exist programmers who, given enough time, can probably beat the compiler. Certainly there are tasks where this is easier, but no one is getting it done in one second.