๐Ÿš€ Spring into AI

Weekly updates, competition submissions, and behind-the-scenes signals from the 5-week build sprint.

๐Ÿ“… Weekly Themes

Week Theme
Week 1 Data Visualization & Interactions
Week 2 Week 2: Tooling for AI Tools
Week 3 Interactive Tutorials
Week 4 Soundwave โ€” Transmission of Identity Through Sound

๐Ÿ“… Competition End Date: March 5th, 2026.

๐Ÿ Need the board at a glance? Check the preliminary results page for standings, weekly momentum, and submission-level signals.

โ“ New to the sprint? Start with FAQ & Tips on Competition for the countdown app, equipment notes, publishing expectations, and a lightweight weekly workflow.

๐Ÿ—’๏ธ Field Notes

Mar 24, 2026 Field Note Results

Spring into AI 2026: Preliminary Results

The competition scoreboard entered data review: competitors had a short window to verify submissions before medals and the final winner were settled.

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Feb 19, 2026 Field Note Week 2

Competition medals are set to arrive

A short Spring into AI logistics signal: the medals were on the way, turning the weekly sprint into a real finish-line experience for participants.

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Feb 9, 2026 Field Note Week 1

Week 1: Data Visualization & Interactions

The Spring into AI kickoff prompt: make data visible, add a meaningful interaction, and ship the lesson in public before the week runs out.

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Mar 7, 2026 Field Note Final Stretch

After four challenging weeksโ€ฆ a winner will soon be chosen!

A short scoreboard signal from the point where the Spring into AI sprint turned from weekly shipping into final judging.

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Mar 1, 2026 Field Note Week 3

Evanโ€™s submission makes use of a new technique

A Week 3 note around Evanโ€™s Kraken Memory-Smash submission and the technique-transfer signal behind it.

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Feb 25, 2026 Field Note Week 3

First submission in for Week 3: a mind palace builder

The first Interactive Tutorials receipt: an AI-powered Method of Loci app that turns memory practice into a guided experience.

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Feb 23, 2026 Field Note Week 2

A quick voice-to-text reminder for participants

A scoring nudge from Week 2: use focused YouTube walkthroughs to make code work visible and move the board with public proof-of-work.

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๐Ÿ“ฐ Latest Builds

Mar 11, 2026 Week 4 Soundwave

๐Ÿข No-human organizations: Agentic Companies โ€” Eric Rhea

Ericโ€™s Week 4 build connects Soundwave to no-human organizational design, with linked video, repo, and live demo.

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Mar 11, 2026 Week 4 Soundwave

๐Ÿง  Palace Radio โ€” Myles Strait

Myles brings Palace Radio to Week 4 with a live demo, GitHub repo, Substack note, and LinkedIn update.

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Mar 11, 2026 Week 4 Soundwave

๐Ÿ“ก Signal Relay โ€” Evan Rhea

A multi-agent relay test that measures how identity and intent survive โ€” or decay โ€” across model handoffs.

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Mar 11, 2026 Week 4 Soundwave

๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ The Artifact โ€” Kyle Sebestyen

Kyleโ€™s Week 4 entry blends Soundwaveโ€™s transmission theme with a live build, repo, and video walkthrough.

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Mar 11, 2026 Week 4 Soundwave ๐Ÿฅ‡ First

๐Ÿ“ป Crypto Radio โ€” Jake Strait

The app for independent voices. Jake opens Week 4 first with a Soundwave-aligned build centered on transmission, identity, and signal.

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Feb 27, 2026 Week 3 Interactive Tutorials ๐Ÿค Collab

โš“ LinkLevel โ€” Kyle Sebestyen

Turn any article into a nautical survival adventure. Paste a URL, generate a voyage, battle bosses, and track XP. Learning that feels like a game โ€” with a shoutout to Myles for the OpenAI integration inspiration.

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Feb 27, 2026 Week 3 Interactive Tutorials

๐Ÿ›๏ธ Memory Palace โ€” Myles Strait

The ancient Method of Loci, powered by AI. Upload your room or use a template, tell the AI what to remember, explore, and quiz yourself. Learning by doing in under 60 seconds.

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Feb 27, 2026 Week 3 Interactive Tutorials ๐Ÿค Collab

๐ŸŽฎ PromptQuest โ€” Jake Strait

An 8-level game that teaches prompt engineering by doing: write prompts, get AI-evaluated feedback, iterate, and level up. Includes live demo + open-source repo.

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Mar 1, 2026 Week 3 Interactive Tutorials

๐Ÿ™ Kraken Memory-Smash โ€” Evan Rhea

Teach a friendly Kraken which coastal houses to smash, then test sequence memory in a browser game loop.

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Mar 1, 2026 Week 3 Interactive Tutorials

๐ŸŒฑ Growing your Software from Seeds โ€” Eric Rhea

A context-seeding workflow for AI software creation: architecture first, expertise seeds, then agentic build execution at scale.

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Feb 23, 2026 Week 2 Review

๐Ÿงฐ Week 2 in Review

The Week 2 roundup: markdown-as-deployment, AI-authored tools, and the submissions that made Tools for AI Tools feel real.

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Feb 22, 2026 Week 2 Tools for AI Tools ๐ŸŒŸ Bonus

๐Ÿฅ— Thanos Fix โ€” Evan Rhea

An agent tool that deletes exactly half your codebase. A chaotic submission for the "Tools for AI Tools" week โ€” perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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Feb 21, 2026 Week 2 Tools for AI Tools Infrastructure

Skill Directory -- Myles Strait

A browsable catalog and machine-readable API for AI agents to discover skills. Infrastructure that makes "which skill do I use?" answerable across the ecosystem.

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Feb 20, 2026 Week 2 Tools for AI SQL Server

๐Ÿ—„๏ธ SQL Server DB Profiler Skill โ€” Kyle Sebestyen

An AI-invokable database profiler that lives in your IDE. Ask your agent "DTUs comin in hot!" and get a synopsis of top offending queries with tuning recommendations.

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Feb 17, 2026 Week 2 Tools for AI Music

๐ŸŽต AI Music Skills โ€” Tools for AI Tools

Eric's Week 2 submission: ElevenLabs music generation and Git Jukebox. AI assistants can generate soundtracks from text prompts and turn every git commit into music. Built by Kira, shipped fast.

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Feb 19, 2026 Week 2 Tools for AI Agent Skill

๐Ÿฅ‡ Crypto Market Agent Skill โ€” Jake Strait

Open-source Agent Skill that gives AI coding assistants live crypto market data. Designed for AI users: JSON output, --help flags, decision trees. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, and 20+ other tools.

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Feb 14, 2026 Week 1 Live Data Web3

Spring into AI Submission: Web3 Crypto Dashboard

Jake Strait's submission features live CoinGecko feeds, interactive charts, and the first cross-competitor bonus. References Myles' ChartSlice โ€” proving cooperation confers advantage.

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Feb 15, 2026 Week 1 Submission #2 Multi-Agent

Astromech Splicer Panel โ€” Multi-Agent AI Workflow

Eric's second submission: a Star Wars-inspired audio visualizer built with ChatGPT โ†’ Claude โ†’ Codex pipeline. 626-line engineering prompt, 13 spec files, zero React. Pure HTML/CSS/JS browser magic.

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Feb 14, 2026 Week 1 Bonus Audio Viz

Audio FFT Visualizer โ€” $8,500 Aesthetic, $0 Hand-Coding

Kyle's second submission: a spectrum analyzer with brushed metal UI. Claude for code, ChatGPT for design, Web Audio API for the magic. Flash-era MP3 visualizers meet 2026 AI workflows.

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Feb 14, 2026 Week 1 Submission Airplane Viz

SkyStats โ€” airplane visualizations

Kyle Sebestyenโ€™s Vercel V0-built aircraft intelligence dashboard turns generated flight data into a Three.js globe, filters, charts, and live-feeling airplane visualizations.

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Feb 13, 2026 Week 1 Submission

Calorie Tracker โ€” Burn Calories, Not Tokens

Evan Rhea combines Codex and GitHub Copilot to build a cross-platform calorie visualization app. Python, FastAPI, React โ€” and a journey from Windows to Mac via AI transcription.

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Feb 12, 2026 Week 1 Competition Update

๐Ÿฅง Competition Update 2/12: Slices of Pie

A standings snapshot from early Week 1, with the simplest operating advice: ship now, iterate later, and watch how leverage changes the board.

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Feb 10, 2026 Week 1 Submission

OpenClaw Session Analyzer โ€” A "Session X-Ray"

A client-side dashboard that turns Open Claw session logs into brutally honest charts. The first surprise? 40,000 average tokens per turn. That's not chattingโ€”it's a leaf blower strapped to the context window.

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Feb 10, 2026 Week 1 Submission

ChartSlice โ€” A Real First Mover Advantage

Myles Strait plunged right into ship-first mindset, putting up the first points on the competitive game board. A masterclass in disciplined Week 1 execution.

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