5,900 Engineers Just Registered for a Hackathon Where Using AI Is the Point. Here's How It Will Actually Be Judged.
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Most hackathons treat coding agents as something between a crutch and cheating. micro1's Frontier Engineering Challenge, which kicks off today, inverts that entirely: you're expected to use coding agents. The competition isn't about whether you can generate code. It's about whether you can generate…
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- 2026-08-28 11:16 · DEV Community — AI
5,900 Engineers Just Registered for a Hackathon Where Using AI Is the Point. Here's How It Will Actually Be Judged.