We used to have 24-72 hrs hackathons pre-AI, where participants built (almost) complete apps in so little time.
Whats changed with hackathon post-AI? Has the time reduced to 1-2 hrs or has the expectation of app quality/completeness gone super high, or both?
I dont know if SaaS is dead or not, but I just vibe coded my own social listening tool with 2 prompts in Claude code.. usual tools in the market cost $100/m+
It listens to keywords and competitor mentions on -
- Reddit
- X
- LinkedIn
- YouTube
- Forums and News
Synthesizes
you may argue why learn programming, why get better at it?
Well, programming is an activity that is know to sharpen your thinking, decision making, improve problem solving and much more. That's all gone!
Colleges will take quite sometime to adapt their computer courses to the AI world. Till then, imagine - you learn programming in college, making those crappy programs and may be some small project.
And then you go into professional world - where there is no programming at all!