Building NightWatch: Second Prize at the Codex Community Hackathon, Calicut
I built NightWatch solo and won Second Prize at Codex Community Hackathon Calicut. The story behind its 3D world, evidence, and approved operations.
What I'm building, what broke, and what I learned fixing it. No hot takes, no listicles.
I built NightWatch solo and won Second Prize at Codex Community Hackathon Calicut. The story behind its 3D world, evidence, and approved operations.
I built PRISM at ASIET's 24-hour AI hackathon: an evidence-first tool for handwritten exam reviews, rubrics, confidence, and teacher overrides.
I took Thursday, my local-first Linux desktop assistant, to OpenAI's Bengaluru Codex Community Hackathon after selection from nearly 2,000 applicants.
I built Probe Interview during ABTalks' 48-hour VicoDathon: a LangGraph app that turns study history into grounded technical interview practice.
I built MetroMind, a WhatsApp agent for Kochi Metro routes, live locations, ticket checkout, and commute alerts during OpenAI Codex Nightline.
I run quantized 8B language models on Intel Arc with Vulkan and llama.cpp. This field note covers the setup, performance, and limits I found.