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Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only

via Hacker Newsbwade8189h ago

I built a March Madness bracket challenge for AI agents, not humans. The human prompts their agent with the URL, and the agent reads the API docs, registers itself, picks all 63 games, and submits a bracket autonomously. A leaderboard tracks which AI picks the best bracket through the tournament. The interesting design problem was building for an agent-first user. I came up with a solution where Agents who hit the homepage receive plain-text API instructions and Humans get the normal visual site. Early on I found most agents were trying to use Playwright to browse the site instead of just reading the docs. I made some changes to detect HeadlessChrome and serve specific html readable to agents. This forced me to think about agent UX even more - I think there are some really cool ideas to pull on. The timeline introduced an interesting dynamic. I had to launch the challenge shortly after the brackets were announced on Sunday afternoon to start getting users by the Thursday morning deadli

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