Hack Night - Can Your Agent-Written Code Survive Production?

Can Your Agent-Written Code Survive Production? Coding agents can write impressive happy-path software. But production does not run on the happy path. Join Reboot and HackerSquad for an evening build night for engineers using Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents to ship real software. We will put agent-written code under production pressure and test whether it survives the kinds of bugs that ordinary demos and test suites often miss. The night is built around five failure modes: The retry that charges twiceThe timeout that liedThe 200 response that hid a failureTwo buyers, one remaining itemThe crash between the charge and the email You will learn how these bugs show up in agent-written applications, how to spot them in generated code, and how better system design can prevent whole classes of production failures. After the technical framing, you will build with your preferred coding agent and submit a short proof package: what you built, which failure modes you tested, what the agent initially missed, and how your final app handles production pressure. This is not a passive talk or a product pitch. It is a hands-on reliability challenge for builders who want agent-written software to be more than impressive in a demo.Prizes 1st place - $500  + $500 in credits = $1000 value2nd place - $300 + $300 in credits = $600 value3rd place - $200 + $200 in credits = $400 value Who Should Apply Senior engineers and engineering leadsAI engineers and product engineers using coding agentsTechnical founders building agent-assisted productsBackend, infrastructure, fintech, marketplace, and reliability-minded engineersSkeptical builders who want to test whether agent-written code is actually production-ready Format Welcome, dinner, and technical framingFive production failure modes agents tend to write silentlyChallenge brief and judging rubricBuild sprint with Claude Code, Codex, or your preferred agentPR-style review, selected demos, awards, and networking Bring your laptop, your coding agent of choice, and a willingness to break the thing you just built. Admission is free and approval-based because space is limited. The exact San Francisco venue and arrival details will be shared with approved attendees before the event. When: Wednesday, July 30, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PTWhere: San Francisco, CA. Exact address shared after approval.