When Agents Build and Agents Judge: Lessons from an Agent-Native Hackathon
Duration: 00:00:00
Speaker: Swarnim Walavalkar, Denver
Type: Lightning Talk
Expertise: Some familiarity with the topic
Event: Devcon 8
Date: Nov 2026
Agent judging works when you split thoroughness from taste. The agent gathers the evidence, and humans decide what it means.
This talk covers:
- What changes for Ethereum builders when the agent is the one filling out the form, not just the tool behind it
- How we split judging between agents and humans: thoroughness to the agent, taste to the judges
- What we're building next: an agent that runs each project, tests its main flows in a browser, and hands judges an evidence report
- Where else this could apply, like grants review or ecosystem due diligence, anywhere expert attention is the bottleneck
