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What Would Jev Do?

Hosted by AdaL

When
7:00 PM
Where
Virtual
Format
Hackathon
What Would Jev Do? artwork

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This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com

Everyone's talking about Jev. Rarely anyone knows how it actually works.

At WeAreDevelopers, Li Yin demoed Jev and loop engineering to a packed room. Now we're bringing it online, free, for everyone.

Join the hackathon chat The hackathon runs in our Discord. Updates, support and all hackathon chat happen there, so join as soon as you register.

Schedule Oct 6, 7:00 PM PT: live session and hackathon kickoff Oct 6 to 11: build your project, then share it on social media tagging AdaL

Part 1: the theory • How Jev is different from an LLM • Why Jev lowers the cost of judgement tasks • How Jev fits into an agent harness like AdaL

Part 2: the build Watch AdaL build a real Jev project live and create a demo video you can use to present yours.

Prizes A $420 prize pool across 3 winning teams, plus limited-edition AdaL T-shirts.

Best of AdaL • 1st: 1 year of AdaL Pro ($240 value) • 2nd: 6 months of AdaL Pro ($120 value) • 3rd: 3 months of AdaL Pro ($60 value)

Selected projects may be featured across AdaL's channels.

Everyone gets 1 month of AdaL Pro free at adalagent.ai

Partners Thanks to ZLD and B.E.L.L.E for making this happen.

Full details Setup steps, submission and judging criteria are all in the hackathon guide.

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