Jon McBee is a developer in Massachusetts. He didn't need to win Anthropic's hackathon to prove he could code. He entered because he wanted to fix the part of his world he cares about most — the next generation of people who are about to ask whether they should still bother.
In one week he built Elisa, a learner experience that reimagines what teaching kids to code looks like when AI can already write the code. The judges placed it second.
Most people in his shoes would have built another devtool. Jon built education. The pattern still holds: the operator who knows the problem from the inside out moves faster than the team that's only ever read about it.