Ghost Mentor Match: Channeling Coding Spirits & a Git Ofrenda with Qwen & Gemma
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine What I Built Every software project is haunted. Beneath the clean production UI lives a graveyard of deleted functions, abandoned architectures, TODO comments from years ago, and 2:00 AM debugging sessi
Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 馃懟馃尲
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine
Every software project is haunted. Beneath the clean production UI lives a graveyard of deleted functions, abandoned architectures, TODO comments from years ago, and 2:00 AM debugging sessions where the machine seems to have a mind of its own.
Inspired by the OctoberFest mentor-match architecture and this week's Ghost in the Machine theme, I built Ghost Mentor Match: The Spirit in the Machine 鈥攁n open-source AI mentorship and D铆a de los Muertos code-remembrance platform.
The application bridges both halves of the challenge prompt through two interactive experiences:
馃敆 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/CodeWithPritom/mentor-match
I designed and built Ghost Mentor Match with an open-source AI core from the ground up:
Building a developer mentorship tool that inspects broken stack traces and private git histories highlights exactly why open-weight models and open innovation beat closed, proprietary APIs:
During the rapid build sprint from the OctoberFest makeathon to final deployment, I used Cursor alongside GitHub Copilot to scaffold the multi-model inference adapter (bridging Cerebras qwen-3.8-27b and local Ollama gemma2:2b ), wire up the interactive D铆a de los Muertos altar state, and refine the responsive Figma Make UI components.
The moment this project truly landed was when I ran a real commit log from an old, abandoned student project through the D铆a de los Muertos Code Ofrenda.
Seeing a deleted 300-line authentication module honored on screen鈥攚ith glowing marigold cards reminding me that "no code is truly wasted if it taught the hands that wrote the next version" 鈥攇enuinely hit different. As developers, we spend so much time deleting, refactoring, and moving on that we rarely pause to appreciate the messy early commits that carried us forward. Turning git log from a dry audit trail into a living altar of engineering memories captured the exact thin line between past and present that Halloween and D铆a de los Muertos represent.