> A day-long designathon makes sense because interesting things can be designed in a day. A day-long cybersecurity competition makes sense because you can penetrate a server in a day if the server is buggy (which our server was because it was a competition for beginners). But good code is not written in a day! Why on Earth are we glamorizing bad programming practices? Sure, sometimes you need to stay up all night
but you are not supposed to!Agreed, the few I've been to felt like a invitation to injure my metaphorical mental muscles doing some impressive-looking form of anti-ergonomic self-harm.
Another issue is the feeling of being punished for honesty when some other folks arrive with projects already 90% completed.