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#agenticcoding #developers #hackathons #claude | Mike Swift

Did you know OpenClaw usage spikes on the weekends? 🤔 Now that the news is out that the DEV Community is officially part of Major League Hacking (MLH), I'm excited to start sharing some of the developer insights I've been tracking behind the scenes: When you normalize the data on the graph below from DEV and filter out the usual Wednesday announcement reactions, you see a massive trend: posts about building with always-on agents hit their absolute peak on Sundays. 📈 Why does this happen? When you can't experiment with cutting-edge tools at your day job or the classroom, you need a "third space" to learn by doing. That is exactly what a hackathon is! Developers are taking their weekends to get hands-on, enjoy the struggle, and build something real. 🛠️ After they build, they write. Sharing these weekend projects on DEV is how developers are doing two huge things: 💡 Demonstrating to the world that they have practical, AI-native skills. 💡 Cataloging their learnings for future reference and to elevate others. Interestingly, this insight mirrors my own experience too. Anyone else seeing/feeling this in the wild? #AgenticCoding #Developers #Hackathons #Claude

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