AI Tinkerers Hackathon 2024: Humans-in-the-Loop Agents

Join Us for an Exciting Weekend of Innovation!

Announcing the AI Tinkerers Humans-in-the-Loop Agents Hackathon, sponsored by Anthropic in collaboration with Copilot Kit and hosted by Foundations.

This hackathon invites you to build in the cutting-edge of AI: humans-in-the-loop agents for a chance to win prizes valued at over $14,800. 🤖 🔄 🙆

As much of the industry is realizing; getting AI agents from cool demos to useful tools requires new architecture for human 🤝 agent collaboration.

Imagine applications where AI agents do 70%, 80%, even 90% of the work, yet a human is easily able to correct parts of the agent output and the agent adjusts accordingly.

Join the builders of the most cutting edge human-in-the-loop frameworks in the ecosystem to build projects that illuminate and guide the future of human-agent systems. Build demos that highlight the power of what human-in-loop AI systems can achieve.

🗓️ Schedule

Day 1 (Saturday, September 21):

Day 2 (Sunday, September 22):

🏆 Prizes

Over $14,800 in total prizes!

Note: Community Pick will be determined by attendee votes.

Judging Criteria

• Scores of 3 are intentionally omitted to encourage decisive evaluation.
• The highest total score across all criteria determines the winners.
• Each criterion is weighted equally.

🤖 Who is this for?

This hackathon is aimed at developers interested in getting their hands dirty learning and building AI tech together. You should know how to code, but you don’t need to be an AI expert!

🗓️ When & Where

This is an in-person hackathon taking place in Seattle on September 21st at 9:30 AM to September 22nd at 3:30 PM. The venue will be Foundations, a hub for tech innovation in Capitol Hill. Bring a team of your own or form a team at the outset of the event.

☝️☝️There is no fee to enter but space is limited and we will be screening attendance, so please register ASAP☝️☝️

🤖🔁👤 Theme: Humans-in-the-Loop Agents

The hackathon focuses on the exciting theme of “humans-in-the-loop agents,” driven by Copilot Kit’s expertise in this area. We’re exploring how AI can work collaboratively with humans to solve complex problems. Copilot Kit will be showcasing their Coagents framework, which enables:

• End-users to correct agent steps in-app
• Streaming of intermediate agent states
• Exposing LangGraph agents as specialized skills for an app’s copilot

👑 Premier Sponsors

We are very grateful to these innovation leaders for their support of AI Tinkerers and this event:

Anthropic - Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Copilot Kit - CopilotKit is an open-source platform enabling rapid integration of AI copilots into applications. It provides ready-to-use components for adding context-aware chatbots and AI-powered features, making it an ideal tool for AI Tinkerers to enhance their projects with cutting-edge capabilities in just hours.

👑 Community Sponsors

Community Sponsors enhance your hackathon experience by bringing their expertise on-site. Founders and technical experts from these innovative companies will be participating alongside you, offering guidance and support to teams using their cutting-edge tools.

Neon - Neon offers a serverless Postgres platform that helps developers build scalable applications faster. Their cloud-native solution features autoscaling, instant branching, and AI-ready capabilities, all built on 100% open-source Postgres. Neon’s innovative approach includes automatic instance sizing, scale-to-zero functionality for cost optimization, and pgvector support for AI applications. By simplifying database operations, Neon aims to enhance developer productivity and streamline the process of building modern, data-driven applications.

DigitalOcean - DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing for developers, with a strong focus on AI/ML solutions. Their new GenAI Platform offers easy access to foundational models from Meta, Mistral AI, and Anthropic for customizing and deploying AI agents. Through Paperspace, they provide high-performance GPU instances, including NVIDIA H100 GPUs, for training and deploying complex AI models. DigitalOcean’s developer-friendly cloud infrastructure enables teams to build and scale sophisticated AI applications with ease.

E2B - E2B provides open-source code interpreting solutions for AI applications. Their Code Interpreter SDK and secure sandboxes enable developers to safely execute AI-generated code within their projects and run their AI agents in E2B sandboxes. E2B supports running almost any AI generated code and agentic workflows that need fast secure sandboxes in the cloud. E2B’s technology is designed to power the next generation of AI apps and agents, making it an invaluable tool for hackathon participants looking to build innovative human-in-the-loop systems or enhance their AI workflows with robust code execution capabilities.

HumanLayer - Bridging AI and human intelligence. This innovative platform enables seamless human-in-the-loop interactions for AI agents, ensuring oversight for high-stakes decisions. With support for major frameworks and LLMs, HumanLayer helps create safer, more accountable AI systems. Perfect for hackathon participants aiming to build responsible and effective AI solutions that keep humans in the loop.

👑 Venue Sponsor

Foundations - Experience the future of Seattle’s tech scene at our hackathon’s exclusive venue. This 5,000 square-foot innovation hub in Capitol Hill offers a rare glimpse into an invite-only, member-owned community. Already home to stealth-mode startups and high-potential founders, Foundations fosters serendipitous connections and deep collaboration among ambitious entrepreneurs. Join us for a taste of this curated environment—your gateway to Seattle’s next wave of tech breakthroughs.

🚀 More Information

If you are new to the group, please be sure to read the AI Tinkerers FAQ.

Join us for an incredible weekend of collaboration, innovation, and fun! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with fellow builders and showcase your skills in human-AI collaboration.

AI Tinkerers Seattle Stats 📊

• Member stats: This exclusive community of 5,360 technical professionals comprises approximately 43% senior software engineers, 32% AI/ML scientists, and 25% technical founders. Members possess deep expertise in agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, and cloud infrastructure. Notably, the group bridges elite enterprise talent from Microsoft and Amazon with venture-backed startups, driving rapid, open-source AI integration and local-first hardware-software innovations.