'Hack Your Summer': A Builder-Sprint Response to the Internship Crisis

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Willison flagged DJ Patil's Hack Your Summer, a 4-week high-velocity production sprint for students and recent grads to ship something real and public-facing with mentor support. It is explicitly framed as a reaction to the US internship crisis — fewer openings as companies cut hiring and teams lose capacity to coach — a hiring-signal story line that resonates with the AI-labor displacement thread.