# Ares-Crucible

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Srinithin Ganesh](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/Sri06), [Shreyas Sahoo](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/ss15-tb), [Sharvil Talware](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/Sharvil_T), [Likhil Gudipati](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/lvgudipati08)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/QuantumGuy99/Meta-Hacks/issues
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/DK4-wyBo0Fc
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/5114

As CS students, we constantly see peers in real life and across social media struggling to break into a brutal tech job market—sending out hundreds of applications only to get filtered out before they can prove what they actually know. Looking closely at why the hiring pipeline is so broken, we realized there are two core problems we need to solve.

"vibe coding" and portfolio verification crisis is the first problem we are trying to solve. With AI coding Agents, people can easily make impressive looking GitHub repos without understanding the underlying architecture, edge cases, or failure modes. To add on, static code reviews and resume screening cannot verify whether a developer actually understands what the developer wrote.

The second problem is unrealistic technical assessments: there are coding platforms that test you (e.g., leetcode) about your algorithmic knowledge. They fail to evaluate how an engineer communicates under pressure and defend realistic trade-offs, debugs live failures, or reasons through real-time voice questioning. 

Ares solves this by shifting technical evaluation from static code submission to active, adversarial verification and live multimodal dialogue.

Ares is a voice-enabled AI technical interviewer and adversarial codebase defense platform. It combats superficial "vibe coding" by auditing a candidate's uploaded project, executing automated breaking attacks against it in an isolated Modal sandbox, and grilling the developer live via bidirectional voice (powered by Meta Muse models and ElevenLabs) alongside a real-time coding interview room and replayable evaluation timeline.

## More from Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon

- [Mantis Analytics](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/5111)
- [BSDEV](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/5112)
- [Not Random](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/5113)
- [Bucketwise | Karthik Ramani](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/5115)
- [Armed](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/5116)
- [Forge Code](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/5117)

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