Just ban internet connection.
RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
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Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#42Listening to someone tell you about their AI-coded project is like listening to someone tell you a dream they had last night "and then this happened, then this happened, then this feature, then this feature" Wow that's crazy...
Yeah dumb until it wins a competition. If it's so stupid why are you worried about it?
Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#43Hackathons turned into “nice ui with mock data”-athons. Whoever got the best ui person on their team won. I benefitted from this a few times!
I’ve seen powerpoint presentations win, and that was my last hackathon
Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#44Hackathons turned into “nice ui with mock data”-athons. Whoever got the best ui person on their team won. I benefitted from this a few times!
When did this happen? I remember judges at hackathons used to be very forgiving about lackluster UIs as long as the idea was cool and at least functional by the presentation time
Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#45AI can one-shot hardware interfacing too
I think any idea of discipline demonstrations will get whittled away until its more like battlebots or robot wars
Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#46Listening to someone tell you about their AI-coded project is like listening to someone tell you a dream they had last night "and then this happened, then this happened, then this feature, then this feature" Wow that's crazy...
Yeah dumb until it wins a competition. If it's so stupid why are you worried about it?
Bizarre comment. OP didn’t say that they were worried or that AI is stupid. Only that it’s boring to hear someone talk about what their AI made.
Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#47I second that, hardware hackathons were and will be the game changers, software hackathon is a done thing, shouldn't be taken much seriously tbh...
Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#48Hackathons turned into “nice ui with mock data”-athons. Whoever got the best ui person on their team won. I benefitted from this a few times!
When did this happen? I remember judges at hackathons used to be very forgiving about lackluster UIs as long as the idea was cool and at least functional by the presentation time
Reminds me of the inconsistency of take home interview tests where you have no idea if the person reviewing cares that the UI is shiny or not or if they want you to write a novel in the readme and make it look like a real project.
Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#49Hackathons turned into “nice ui with mock data”-athons. Whoever got the best ui person on their team won. I benefitted from this a few times!
When did this happen? I remember judges at hackathons used to be very forgiving about lackluster UIs as long as the idea was cool and at least functional by the presentation time
It's more about unconscious bias. The slick smoke and mirror will simply show better.
Re: RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find basic sites, that were probably put together by the owner’s nephew, rather charming. Much better than AI.
I'll even excuse the ones with food photos that look like they were taken with a feature phone. New places that can't even bother to take photos of their own menu are a massive red flag to me. Where else are they cutting corners?
I absolutely despise food delivery sites where there is either "example picture" or AI generated picture on food item. Why even bother? I understand that food-photography needs some level of skill, but still maybe bad photo of real thing is lot better than fake photo of fake thing...