A hackathon is a compression test for how you actually work

<h1> I Loved the Hackathon. The Pull Requests Came After. </h1> <p>I loved the hackathon. Not because every hour went perfectly, and not because I left with some perfect origin

<p>I judged three hackathons over about ten days this July: MLH x DigitalOcean "AI for Social Good" on July 11, the Sports World Cup Hackathon in San Francisco on July 17, and

<p>Most coding platforms train engineers to solve isolated algorithm problems.</p> <p>But in real engineering, you rarely reverse linked lists.</p> <ul> <li>You debug production

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it