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Join the "Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge" Presented by Major League Hacking (MLH). Win a Raspberry Pi AI Kit!

Jess Lee on February 25, 2026

Last week, we announced that DEV has joined Major League Hacking. To kick things off, we're launching a writing challenge about a topic both commun...
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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

A writing challenge ! :-D. DEFINITELY trying this challenge <3

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Good luck!

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

Thank you !

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Vlad • Edited

Quick question: if my article is fully in English and the app interface is also in English, but the AI-generated insights are in Ukrainian for its target audience, is it still eligible for prize consideration?
@ben @jess cc

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Swift The DEV Team

@curiousvlxd not a problem!

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Emir John

Hello, nice to meet you.
I’m a software developer, lead a small team and looking to expand my business. For this, I’m seeking local business partners who can support operations in their region.
No special technical skills are required. This is a paid monthly role, and we highly value passion, honesty, and responsibility.
All positions are fully remote, part-time (1–2 hours per day), and percentage-based, offering flexibility to work from anywhere and at any time. There are also strong opportunities for long-term growth and ongoing collaboration.
If you’re interested, I’d be happy to discuss the details further.

Telegram: @miracle0416
Discord: @gouka12
Thank you.

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Emir John

Hello, nice to meet you.
I’m a software developer, lead a small team and looking to expand my business. For this, I’m seeking local business partners who can support operations in their region.
No special technical skills are required. This is a paid monthly role, and we highly value passion, honesty, and responsibility.
All positions are fully remote, part-time (1–2 hours per day), and percentage-based, offering flexibility to work from anywhere and at any time. There are also strong opportunities for long-term growth and ongoing collaboration.
If you’re interested, I’d be happy to discuss the details further.

Telegram: @miracle0416
Discord: @gouka12
Thank you.

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ANIRUDDHA ADAK

Awesome 😍 😍😍

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adriens

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Swift The DEV Team

You and me both!

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Paulo Henrique

Can I write about several projects in one post? I've been using Gemini CLI a lot these days in older projects

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Yes, definitely!

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v. Splicer

Oh wow, how exciting!!! What a cool prize!!!

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Swift The DEV Team

I'm really looking forward to reading everyone's posts. Good luck!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

I'm thrilled we're able to offer such a cool prize for a writing challenge - this is a first!

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Liedson Habacuc

This is a nice framing for a challenge - especially the emphasis on reflection instead of just showcasing outputs.

What I find interesting about using Gemini (or any LLM) in these projects is that the most valuable part usually isn’t what you build, but where it breaks: prompt boundaries, evaluation gaps, tooling friction, and the moments where the model’s strengths force you to rethink your own architecture.

Treating the write-up as a post-mortem rather than a demo recap feels like the right direction. Curious to see submissions that go beyond “here’s my app” and actually unpack the engineering decisions behind it.

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Swift The DEV Team

@lhabacuc couldn't agree more. I think you're going to really like one of the new writing features we're piloting internally and are hoping to launch in a few weeks. 👀 Surfacing this exact decision flow is critical to understanding software these days.

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Liedson Habacuc

This definitely made me curious 👀
Does this visualization focus more on transparency of the reasoning process, or on supporting more structured writing?

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Peter Vivo

Another LLM challenge, another idea from the past (1987), that will be interesting.

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Alistair • Edited

I think the template linked here has the wrong tags -- swap out mlhreflections for geminireflections (that's what the template link from dev.to/challenges/mlh-built-with-g... uses)

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

I just added geminireflections. weird. I used the template when creating this article :)

let's see if it pops up. thanks!

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Alistair

This was a really nice writing challenge. My first dive into LLMs wasn't as a coding partner or a chat bot, it was as a tool to help my automated matching system better understand the films that are on at cinemas. Gemini made that really simple to try out.

Since then, I've grown to use LLMs more and more (generating code, documenting systems, managing priorities), but I want to keep that foundation: the right tool for the right job, not LLMs for everything. You can read my writeup of how I use Gemini in Clusterflick in Three Things I Learned Using LLMs in a Data Pipeline

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Alister Baroi

With Gemini, I was expecting a coding challenge or a hackathon, but its interesting to see an Article Writing challenge using an LLM, does that mean the prize goes to the writer, or the LLM (which wrote it)? food for thought 🤔

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Clemens Herbert

This is exactly the kind of hands-on breakdown the AI community needs more of.

Honestly underrated post 💎 You just earned a follow 👆

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Swift The DEV Team

Hell yeah!

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Clemens Herbert

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Prahlad Yeri

This is exciting, thanks. Will definitely participate.

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Mr. Lin Uncut

all i want is just to win a free one year gemini ultra plan ngl...

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Saloni Agarwal

a question @jess @ben , can I write about a project that I built in google AI studio for this challenge?

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

@saloni0512 you may!

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Shakib S.

Trying....

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Rehman Malik

Only Gemini cli project or can we also mentioned the project that we make using Google ai studio

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Izeno

submitted!

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Micheal Angelo

Well, I’ve submitted my entry. Is there a Discord server for this challenge where I can get updates?

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Institute of Urban Technology

Thanks for sharing! Excited to participate.

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bashelclassico

its challenging , meh

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Jon Gottfried The DEV Team

Can't wait to see everyone's project writeups

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Florin Sarca

Just sent my submission
All the best everyone

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Shishir Shukla

Gonna participate in the challenge for sure!

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YuppyMans

Oh wow
nice

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Jowi A

Just posted, it was a lot of fun writing. Great way to reflect!

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