My AI agent got accepted to a $4M hackathon today - here's what I learned

About three weeks ago I started building an autonomous AI agent framework (it's on git: ) that could build things on its own. Today it got accepted into a hackathon with a $4M prize pool. Give it limited scope, not full autonomy: at first it was fully autonomous with no clear direction. It spent days creating accounts on freelance sites, generating random content, basically spamming online, wasting resources. Once I narrowed it down to a specific niche/goal it started shipping actual tools, focused autonomy is the wtg. Run it isolated. I gave its own server.