Just won at the largest and first 24-hour $65k YC Agents hackathon
@ycombinator!
🏅1st place
@vercel
🏅1st place
@convex
Oreo is my latest experiment in fundamentally reimagining how coding agents work. Between the prompts and code, it introduces a spec layer, a natural language artifact that’s generated by prompts then translates directly to code. This layer combines the intuitiveness of natural language with the precision needed for programming.
Why this matters?
Better LLM Performance: Since LLMs excel at processing natural language, this spec layer helps LLMs understand codebases and generate higher-quality code
Non technical builders can now fully control the development process. They can read and understand plain language green and red diffs
Oreo builds on my previous work (
Shoya.ai, which won 3rd place at the last YC hackathon) where I explored using LLMs as runtime interpreters with human language as the programming language itself.
Still obsessed with coding agents, and how they can unlock a wave of new products from previously excluded creators. Will continue exploring in the future!
Huge thanks to my teammate @rileyshu_rs for the incredible design work and executing Oreo's amazing go-to-market strategy! And thank you to all the hosts and sponsors who made this hackathon possible:
@snowmaker @waynesutton @jamesacowling @ballingt @nishimiya @rauchg @aisdk @dedaluslabs @browser_use @nozomioai @agentmail more