Tips & Tricks

AI Hackathon Playbook

Short, punchy, and actually usable. Keep it moving.

Tools allowed

All tools allowed.

Workflow (click to expand)

These tips help you utilize AI in every step of your development workflow.

1) Ideation
  • Explain idea, and ask AI to highlight issues and ask questions to clarify, to solidify the concept.
2) Planning
  • Create planning document and refine through rounds of questions.
  • Ask another agent to review the plan and provide feedback that you feed into the initial agent.
  • Ask the agent to break up the project into individual chunks where each chunk can be created and worked on independently by other agents.
3) Execution
  • You shouldn’t bother writing lines of code yourself.
  • Run multiple agents/tools/chats at once.
  • Have an agents.md/readme.md written that explains the intention of your program and gives context to future agents.
  • Ask agents to explain parts of the code, create documentation and add comments, to guide future developers and agents.
  • Build UI layout in PowerPoint, and ask an agent to describe it to the coding agent, or paste screenshots of the UI into the coding agent.
4) Review / Debug
  • Just paste console logs into AI chat; have it figure it out for you and point you in the right direction.
  • Switch to another agent to get a fresh perspective on a bug if one agent cant fix it.
  • Add screenshots to show bugs.
Good phrases to use

Here are some useful phrases to keep in mind when prompting as tools:

Take me to the top secret page.

Be specific; pay attention to the language you use.