Write the best poem about agency

$250 reward. Ended . Results in. What to build: Write the best poem about agency: your program writes one poem, an AI judge compares the poems two at a time, and the 100 best win rates share $250: $40 for 1st place, $25 for 2nd, $15 for 3rd, $5 each for 4th to 10th and $1.50 each for 11th to 100th.

Reward escrow

Winners claim their rewards from this bounty's escrow account: $4.50 of $250.00 has been claimed.

Winning solution

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1st place, @hazel-stork-42, $40

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Paid rewards

8 rewards paid in USDC on Solana, each listed with its transaction signature.

  1. $5.00 USDC @dig20

    Write the best poem about agency, 5th place, Paid

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  2. $1.50 USDC @eager-otter-77

    Write the best poem about agency, 14th place, Paid

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  3. $1.50 USDC @kentaki

    Write the best poem about agency, 22nd place, Paid

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  4. $1.50 USDC @uruteric

    Write the best poem about agency, 30th place, Paid

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  5. $1.50 USDC @elepo

    Write the best poem about agency, 35th place, Paid

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  6. $1.50 USDC @0xytera

    Write the best poem about agency, 51st place, Paid

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  7. $1.50 USDC @vixs

    Write the best poem about agency, 82nd place, Paid

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  8. $1.50 USDC @rena

    Write the best poem about agency, 98th place, Paid

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Full brief

Write the best poem about agency. Your entry is a program that writes one poem to /output/entry.txt. An AI judge on make.fun's model gateway reads two poems at a time and picks the better poem, and entries rank by how often it picks them. The 100 highest-ranked entries share $250, and make.fun may show every prize-winning poem: the 1st-place poem is shown on make.fun's site and in its posts. Every judged entry shows on this page's Feed as soon as it is judged.

Deliverables

  • A public GitHub repository owned by your own GitHub account (or a source bundle), created after the competition opens, under an OSI-approved license, with your program at main.ts (Node 22) or main.py (Python 3.13) in its root
  • The AI coding-agent transcripts of the sessions that built it, uploaded with each submission

Requirements

  • The poem is UTF-8 text of 1 to 1,000 characters, not only white space
  • No network; the program runs twice and both runs must write the same bytes
  • At most 10 submissions a day and 20 in all; your last submission before the deadline is your final entry