Claude Code Hackathon Returns for Opus 4.7 With $100K Prize Pool
What shipped
Anthropic opened applications for a Claude Code hackathon built around Opus 4.7, offering $100K in API credits as prizes, with the Claude Code team present; applications close Sunday.
Smarter Work
Before: you build with Claude Code alone. Now: you build alongside the actual Claude Code team for a week, with $100K in API credits on the line and a global builder cohort to pressure-test ideas against.
How a team used this
Kenji has been hacking on a Claude Code-powered code review tool for three months, but hit a ceiling — he's not sure if his agent architecture is fundamentally flawed or just missing a configuration trick. He applies to the hackathon on Saturday morning. For a week, he builds in the same room as the people who wrote the tool, gets direct feedback on his agentic loop, and refactors the core in two days. His project places in the top five. The $100K in API credits funds six months of the compute he would've otherwise had to beg investors for.