Longshot
Modal Challenge Winner (378 teams)
TreeHacks · 2026
The team typed one sentence describing Minecraft, and 200 AI assistants worked together overnight, writing code side by side until they had rebuilt the game from scratch.
AI has already transformed the digital world by translating language to code with autonomous coding agents, but this requires human intervention. Longshot changes that by orchestrating swarms of autonomous agents. Each agent observes, interprets, and acts in real time, working in parallel while staying aligned to the project’s goal. Longshot is our architectural system curated towards spawning swarms of carefully managed long-running agents that code an end product start to finish. Most agentic coding today like Claude and OpenClaw are iterative loops where you either supervise step by step or let a single agent run in a loop.
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