Cerebral ValleyJetBrainsOpenAI

Spring 2026 · SHACK15, San Francisco

The IDE Reimagined: JetBrains x OpenAI Codex Hackathon

Official Judge · Two-day event with 350+ builders and $3,000 per winning team

Cerebral Valley, JetBrains, and OpenAI hosted a two-day in-person hackathon at SHACK15 built around a single question: what happens when you rethink the IDE from the ground up with Codex as a first-class citizen? Over 350 builders shipped projects using OpenAI Codex, JetBrains tooling, and the wider developer ecosystem.

I served as a judge alongside a panel from JetBrains, OpenAI, and the local dev community, evaluating live demos on originality, technical depth, and how convincingly each team argued its take on the future of coding. Sponsored by Vercel, Supabase, Clerk, Authzed, Nebius, and BKey.

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