--- title: Dev Opportunity Radar #19: Hacktoberfest, $20K AI Agent... description: A weekly curated roundup of developer opportunities covers Pear Prime 2027 (an early-career engineering program with mentorship and startup exposure),... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dev-opportunity-radar-19-hacktoberfest-20k-ai-agent-hackathon-and-pear-prime-2027-grstii7l7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Dev Opportunity Radar #19: Hacktoberfest, $20K AI Agent Hackathon, and Pear Prime 2027 | daily.dev og:description: A weekly curated roundup of developer opportunities covers Pear Prime 2027 (an early-career engineering program with mentorship and startup exposure),... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dev-opportunity-radar-19-hacktoberfest-20k-ai-agent-hackathon-and-pear-prime-2027-grstii7l7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GrsTIi7L7.png og:image:alt: Dev Opportunity Radar #19: Hacktoberfest, $20K AI Agent Hackathon, and Pear Prime 2027 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Dev Opportunity Radar #19: Hacktoberfest, $20K AI Agent Hackathon, and Pear Prime 2027 **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 12 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A weekly curated roundup of developer opportunities covers Pear Prime 2027 (an early-career engineering program with mentorship and startup exposure), Hacktoberfest 2026 (now focused on open-source AI and open-weight models, with pull/merge requests no longer counting toward rewards), and Graph Hacks, a $20,000 online hackathon by WeMakeDevs and FalkorDB challenging teams to build AI agents using graph databases for memory and context. It also highlights a free advanced technical book, 'How to Scale Your Model,' covering TPU/GPU scaling, sharding, and parallelism for LLMs from Google DeepMind researchers, plus a reminder of a still-open Nebius x NVIDIA hackathon. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What changed about Hacktoberfest 2026 rules for earning rewards? Pull requests and merge requests no longer count toward Hacktoberfest rewards. The event instead focuses on learning, building, and participating in activities like livestreams, Global Hack Week, and DEV Challenges, with a new mini-hackathon launching weekly on DEV throughout October, and this year's theme centers on open-source AI and open-weight models. _Open-source contributors tracking event rule changes like this can follow updates on daily.dev._ ### What is the prize pool and requirement for the Graph Hacks AI agent hackathon using FalkorDB? The Graph Hacks hackathon, run by WeMakeDevs and FalkorDB from October 15 to 18, 2026, offers a $20,000 prize pool across three tracks: Agents That Act on Connected Data, Agent Memory and Coordination, and Company Brain. FalkorDB must be a central, newly implemented part of the submitted project, teams can have up to four members, and no prior graph database experience is required. _Developers choosing a hackathon or graph database stack can compare options and news on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Dev Opportunity Radar \#16: $15K AI Agent Hackathon, AI Education Fellowship, and AWS Student Rewards](https://daily.dev/posts/dev-opportunity-radar-16-15k-ai-agent-hackathon-ai-education-fellowship-and-aws-student-rewards-jqafqegjl) · DEV · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Dev Opportunity Radar \#18: $50K AI Hackathon, SheBuilds, Verci Fellowship, and Stanford CS336](https://daily.dev/posts/dev-opportunity-radar-18-50k-ai-hackathon-shebuilds-verci-fellowship-and-stanford-cs336-9iqowtbhp) · DEV · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitLab AI Hackathon 2026: Meet the winners](https://daily.dev/posts/gitlab-ai-hackathon-2026-meet-the-winners-2cehmn6x4) · GitLab · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Databricks Free Edition Hackathon: show the world what’s possible in data and AI](https://daily.dev/posts/databricks-free-edition-hackathon-show-the-world-what-s-possible-in-data-and-ai-fljddkkpc) · databricks · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - 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