MadAI Hackathon – AI Code Jam

Join us for a day of augmented development and prompt engineering. Whether you are looking to accelerate a side project, learn the nuances of LLMs, or just see how fast you can break an agent, this is your space. This is a 5-hour collaborative working session designed to get you out of "tutorial hell" and into building mode with the help of AI.
The Plan: This isn't a classroom. It's a lab. Bring your laptop and your current obsession.
We are focusing on:
– AI-Assisted Build: exploring how tools like Claude Code, Google Antigravity, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and others can handle the heavy lifting.
– Orchestration: Make a fleet of tools to do your bidding.
– Prompt Experimentation: seeing which models handle your specific stack the best.
– Classic Coding: Not into AI? No worries. We always need "Human-in-the-Loop" experts to review code and keep the machines honest.
Note regarding network access: You are free to use almost any tool you like, though please be aware that DeepSeek AI is currently blocked on the venue Wi-Fi.
The Logistics:
– Date: Saturday, June 13
– Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Drop in or stay the whole time)
– Fuel: We break at noon for pizza. It’s a "pay what you want" system—chip in for a slice or bring your own lunch.
– Show & Tell: Stick around at 2:30 PM for an optional demo. Show off your working app, or share the most hilarious hallucination your AI produced during the day.
Space is limited to 50 participants.
Register here:
https://guild.host/events/ai-code-jam-june-2026-58mt2i
Room: 120, Bldg: Paradigm, 1850 Deming Way, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States