​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 twice

• ​The timeout that lied

• ​The 200 response that hid a failure

• ​Two buyers, one remaining item

• ​The 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 value
2nd place - $300 + $300 in credits = $600 value
3rd place - $200 + $200 in credits = $400 value

​Who Should Apply

• ​Senior engineers and engineering leads

• ​AI engineers and product engineers using coding agents

• ​Technical founders building agent-assisted products

• ​Backend, infrastructure, fintech, marketplace, and reliability-minded engineers

• ​Skeptical builders who want to test whether agent-written code is actually production-ready

​Format

• ​Welcome, dinner, and technical framing

• ​Five production failure modes agents tend to write silently

• ​Challenge brief and judging rubric

• ​Build sprint with Claude Code, Codex, or your preferred agent

• ​PR-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 PT
Where: San Francisco, CA. Exact address shared after approval.