Private user • 6 days ago
2 months of delay only for them to have AI pick the winners
I mean I get it, we all wanted to win, there is no warranty we will get anything out of a hackathon etc, but is just funny how they very evidently just fed a handful of projects to an AI model and have it make the decision without any real person ever seeing anything which is literally what happened, it is what it is.
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Naveen S • 6 days ago
Anyways it's done all the very best for your future endeavours, you are the orchestrator of you
Gauraw Singh • 5 days ago
How are you so sure that they fed it to AI for results?
Private user • 4 days ago
I feel there is something fundamentally wrong with the evaluation process. I worked 12 hours a day for nearly a month to solve a critical educational challenge in India. My focus was on building a solution that can reach every child, including families with limited education, ensuring the product is simple and usable for non-technical or less-educated users.
My project received positive feedback and recognition from several Indian educationalists, yet it seems it wasn’t even noticed during the judging phase.
Given that Google DeepMind is involved, I expected a high standard of technical auditing. After seeing the quality of many projects that were overlooked, I genuinely believed mine should have at least been in the top 30. It is disheartening to see the current results when so much genuine engineering effort was put in.
What is even more concerning is that this does not appear to be a rigorous evaluation at all. Even a basic AI-assisted evaluation would likely have caught inconsistencies like missing implementations, reused projects, or incorrect specifications. The current outcome suggests that neither thorough manual review nor meaningful AI evaluation was applied.
I hope the investigation by Devpost and the Google team addresses not just the outcomes, but why high-impact, technically sound projects — especially those focused on real-world accessibility and inclusion — were overlooked.
Private user • 4 days ago
I mean tbh no one forces you to put so much work on a hackathon, the effort and time you put is entirely up to you, the problem is the lack of transparency and evident sloppiness/laziness that made them just feed whatever projects they had at reach to their LLM and have it pick since there were no judges.
Private user • 4 days ago
It’s true that no one directly forced us to put in this level of effort. But the use of the Google brand indirectly pushed us to go above and beyond. I’ve been following around 5–6 hackathons, and I’ve never seen this many talented builders in one place. Even a first-place winner from another hackathon would likely struggle to make it into the top 100 here.
We all showed up and gave 100% because we trusted the name involved. But the way this was handled clearly shows that the trust placed in the process was not respected.