Most hackathons treat coding agents as something between a crutch and cheating. micro1's Frontier Engineering Challenge, which kicks off today, inverts that entirely: you're expected to use coding agents. The competition isn't about whether you can generate code. It's about whether you can generate code that survives scrutiny. That's a fundamentally different game, and judging by how most engineers approach AI-assisted work, a lot of the field is about to optimise for the wrong thing. ...