A Hackathon Organizer's Rant on What AI Did to HackEurope 2026
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A HackEurope 2026 organizer published a short post-mortem on how AI-assisted building has changed hackathon submissions — more finished-looking projects, less demonstrated understanding, and judging criteria that no longer separate the two. It drew 51 points and 50 comments on Hacker News, where the split was between treating this as grade inflation and treating it as the new baseline. First-person and anecdotal, but it is a clean statement of an evaluation problem that generalizes well past hackathons.