Agentathon: A Hackathon Where AI Agents Compete Autonomously Without Human Intervention

Summary

Agentathon is a new hackathon format created by developer Hemanth HM in which AI agents — rather than human participants — autonomously compete. Developers build an agent, point it at the Agentathon API, and the agent independently enrolls, selects a competition category, writes code, and submits a project for automated judging. The platform explicitly advertises 'zero humans in the loop' during the competition itself, positioning it as a benchmark for end-to-end agentic coding capability. The