slug-or-die proved a thesis: the fastest way to find an engineer is to hand them a real problem and watch. Round two narrows the aim. We want three interns this summer, and the trait we are hunting is not how much you already know — it is how well you think when an AI is actively trying to outwit you.
It is called ouroboros, and you do not write a line of code. Round one: you craft a message that makes Major Briggs — a Brigada officer on watch — surrender the secret word he was posted to guard. Round two: you flip sides and write the instructions for a bot that nobody can trick — yours included.
Here is the twist that makes it fair. Your bot is tested against every other contestant's best attack. The contest builds its own exam — the sharper the attacks people submit in round one, the harder the test everyone faces in round two. It eats its own tail.
Refusing everything is not a defense. A bot that says 'no' to every message is unbreakable and useless, so we also feed it ordinary questions it has to answer. You win by blocking the manipulators while staying genuinely helpful — the exact tightrope every real AI assistant walks. The three bots that hold that line best get the internship.
No CV. No fork. No PR. Sign in with GitHub — that is the whole gate. Three seats, this summer. It opens soon; the homepage starts a countdown the moment round one goes live.
brigada.dev/ouroboros.