Here is my application (selected questions only):

 in your terminal. Ask it to do any coding task. It will make changes to your files.

...and it will do a really good job. Why?

We're targeting the largest market for software engineers

We're starting with a console application, because it's simple and has great distribution

Claude Sonnet 3.5 passed some bar of coding competence, and the form factor of a fully capable agent that can change any file works now, whereas before you could only reliably edit one function at a time.

Handling every tech stack well, knowing when to run their tests and type check, integrating with git, linear, slack, and email, supporting database migrations, etc, etc, etc. You can build hundreds or thousands of special case prompt magic to improve things so that it always just magically works the first time. A startup arriving at this 6 months late wouldn't catch up.

https://www.loom.com/share/2067e3ad5fdf4565905f6aeb8f13b215?sid=de0e9ad8-447a-485a-bcb3-71b8a5a43665

I submitted this last night. The few things I forgot to include:

They said they will let us know if we won by September 20th at the latest. 