https://ujaanmukherjee.com/tags/developer/Recent content in Developer on Ujaan MukherjeeHugoen-usSun, 02 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0530https://ujaanmukherjee.com/journal/hackathons-arent-meta/Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0530https://ujaanmukherjee.com/journal/hackathons-arent-meta/<p>There was a time when winning a hackathon required something vaguely resembling computer science. You needed to know how your application worked, how your backend communicated with your frontend, why your database wasn&rsquo;t on fire, and occasionally, what the hell a WebSocket was.</p> <p>Those were simpler times.</p> <p>Today, you need three things: a decent prompt, a collection of AI subscriptions that would make your bank account file a police complaint, and enough design sense to make a generated landing page look like it belongs in a YC pitch deck.</p>