After competing in multiple hackathons, I’ve found that they rarely produce useful work. It’s actually quite a bit of work to extract and formalize problems (from organizations). I feel like around EA, I’m not sure how many problems there are suitable to hackathons.
That said, they can be good for networking / experimenting with working with different groups. I’m happy I went through the hackathons I did, but more for skill building than direct output.
I think overall I’d expect them to be a decent use of a weekend, but would expect the output to be similar to that of other hackathons (i.e. not that much, so just expect that). ~2 days isn’t that much, both in costs and expected benefits.
After competing in multiple hackathons, I’ve found that they rarely produce useful work. It’s actually quite a bit of work to extract and formalize problems (from organizations). I feel like around EA, I’m not sure how many problems there are suitable to hackathons.
That said, they can be good for networking / experimenting with working with different groups. I’m happy I went through the hackathons I did, but more for skill building than direct output.
I think overall I’d expect them to be a decent use of a weekend, but would expect the output to be similar to that of other hackathons (i.e. not that much, so just expect that). ~2 days isn’t that much, both in costs and expected benefits.