Back in my day if you delivered the 20th variation of the same idea at least you could argue you spent the time learning a new tech stack or something. If you are obviously having AI do all the implementation what did you spend the last 48 hours doing exactly

Also I feel like more judges need to read Hacker News because people will actively try to present a “quirky, weird project” that someone literally posted there like a month ago and just not get called out on it