When former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt, someone from the audience asked him if HBO's hit satire 'Silicon Valley' would be revived. Costolo, who was a writer for the show, essentially answered no (at timestamp 38:17). The latest case in point is a new company called Clad Labs that launched out of Y Combinator this week. Clad's product is so outside-the-box that people thought it was an April Fools' joke in November. But it's a real product, founder Richard Wang told TechCrunch. The product is called 'Chad: The Brainrot IDE.' It is yet another vibe coding integrated development environment ' an IDE is the software developers use to code ' but with a twist. While waiting for the AI coding tool to finish its task, the developer can mess around with their favorite brainrot activities within a window of the IDE. Or, as the company's website advertises: 'Gamble while you code. Watch TikToks. Swipe on Tinder. Play minigames. This isn't a joke ' it's Chad IDE, and...
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