Build With AI: Basics

Build With AI: Basics Build a working first draft of an app in an afternoon using AI best practices, with a set of reusable skills in your coding agent. Learn with a live build session, office hours, community, and a $2,500 prize pool, while creating something useful to your work or your life. About the challenge Devpost has launched a new kind of hackathon: shorter, built around learning, and open to join every month. Have you ever asked an AI to help you code something, only to watch it repeat a mistake you already fixed, forget a decision you made ten prompts ago, or hand back code that works but you can t explain? It happens to almost everyone who starts building with AI. Nobody showed you the basics. This hackathon does. You ll build a proof of concept: a small app that runs and does one thing end to end. To get there, you ll install the Devpost Learn Skill Pack , step-by-step guides that live inside your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any agent that supports skills)

Deadline

October 26, 2026

Format

Online

Prize

$2,500

Themes and skills