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Agents Under Pressure - Build your own OS

Name: Agents Under Pressure - Build your own OS
Start: 2026-05-23T17:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-05-25T18:30:00.000Z
Location: TBD

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Overview

Agents Under Pressure — 48 Hour Hackathon with HydraDB ⚡

$500 in prizes. 48 hours. One mission: build OS using AI Agents that don’t break under pressure.

Most AI agents look great in perfect demos.
Then reality hits.

Tools fail.
Docs are messy.
Context gets huge.
Requirements change.
Users interrupt.
The clock runs out.

Venue: https://discord.gg/UYsxv9PNU

Agents Under Pressure is a 48-hour online hackathon powered by HydraDB, bringing together builders from India, the USA, and beyond to create AI agents that can actually survive real-world chaos.

This is not a wrapper hackathon.
No toy demos.
No shallow prompt engineering.
No “ChatGPT with a prettier UI.”

Build agents that can reason across messy data, remember context, recover from failures, use tools, adapt to changing goals, and finish useful work under pressure.

You can build things like:

First Build your own OS like Varun Mohan did at Googel I/O
AI research agents
workflow automation agents
long-context copilots
memory-based assistants
agents that use real tools
agents that recover from broken inputs
chaotic, useful systems we haven’t imagined yet

Core Tracks

Memory — agents that remember and retrieve useful context
Tools — agents that use APIs, workflows, and external systems
Recovery — agents that handle failure instead of crashing
Adaptation — agents that adjust when the task changes

🏆 $500 in Prizes

🥇 1st Place
🥈 2nd Place
🎯 Special Bounties

⏰ Schedule

Day 1

10:00 AM PT — Opening + Kickoff
8:00 PM PT — Progress Check + Office Hours

Day 2

9:00 AM PT — Final Build Sprint

Day 3

9:00 AM PT — Deadline + Judging Begins

Where to Build

Join the HydraDB Discord:
https://discord.gg/UYsxv9PNU

If you like building fast, shipping under pressure, and pushing AI systems beyond clean demos, this is for you.

Come build agents that survive chaos.

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AI Valley is a community for exceptional first-generation builders, founders, and creators. We host high-signal hackathons, workshops, and gatherings where ambitious people find collaborators, mentors, and real opportunities.