{"id":130629,"date":"2025-11-13T06:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/130629\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:51:11","slug":"chad-the-brainrot-ide-is-a-new-y-combinator-backed-product-so-wild-people-thought-it-was-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/130629\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Chad: The Brainrot IDE\u2019 is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake"},"content":{"rendered":"

When former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt,<\/a> someone from the audience asked him if HBO\u2019s hit satire \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d would be revived. Costolo, who was a writer for the show, essentially answered no (at timestamp 38:17<\/a>).<\/p>\n

While the writers talk about that regularly, he said, they don\u2019t pursue it because today\u2019s actual Silicon Valley is so bizarre, it can\u2019t be parodied.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latest case in point is a new company called Clad Labs<\/a> that launched out of Y Combinator this week<\/a>. Clad\u2019s product is so outside-the-box that people thought it was an April Fools\u2019 joke in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a real product, founder Richard Wang told TechCrunch. The product is called \u201cChad: The Brainrot IDE.\u201d It is yet another vibe coding integrated development environment<\/a> \u2014 an IDE is the software developers use to code \u2014 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or, as the company\u2019s website advertises: \u201cGamble while you code. Watch TikToks. Swipe on Tinder. Play minigames. This isn\u2019t a joke \u2014 it\u2019s Chad IDE, and it\u2019s solving the biggest productivity problem in AI-powered development that nobody\u2019s talking about.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The founders say their IDE increases productivity by helping with \u201ccontext switching.\u201d Their argument is, by doing your brainrot activities within the IDE itself, as soon as the AI is done with the task, you\u2019ll get right back to work rather than be focused on your phone or browser.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reaction on X was mixed<\/a>. While some people thought it was a fake satire, others thought it was a good \u2014 or a terrible \u2014 idea.<\/p>\n

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Like it or hate it, everyone had an opinion, even Jordi Hays, co-host of the enthusiastically pro-tech podcast TBPN. Hays penned a post on the product<\/a> called, \u201cRage Baiting is for Losers.\u201d In it he said of Chad IDE: \u201cOn one hand it\u2019s funny. On the other hand, what are we doing here and why does this belong on the official YC account?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He argued that products like Chad IDE and Cluely have moved rage bait from a marketing gimmick to a \u201cproduct strategy\u201d and \u201cit really should not be.\u201d He urged YC to start teaching founders that \u201crage baiting is for losers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is particularly interesting advice from someone who, as a founder, had mastered viral marketing without rage. Hays and his wife Sarah founded Party Round, a funding startup that went viral for their friendly marketing gimmicks like launching NFT versions of top \u201chelpful\u201d VCs.<\/a> (Party Round rebranded to Capital and sold to Rho in 2024<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wang tells TechCrunch what the haters don\u2019t get about his brainrot IDE is that it wasn\u2019t intended to be rage bait. The founders hope it becomes a genuinely beloved AI vibe coder for consumer-app type developers. They want to give these folks a consumer app-like experience in an IDE.<\/p>\n

While the product is real, it\u2019s not available to the public yet. <\/p>\n

\u201dWe\u2019re currently in a closed beta,\u201d Wang said. Right now, Chad is attempting to build a \u201ccommunity\u201d of users who like the idea. Clad Labs hopes to open the product to the public soon, but for now, users must get an invite from someone already in the beta.<\/p>\n

No doubt there\u2019s a certain type of developer who would love Chad. But whatever the future holds for this product, one thing is true: It is nearly impossible to parody Silicon Valley these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt, someone from the audience asked him if HBO\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,17704,343,344,73788,85,46,81858,125,17706,996],"class_list":{"0":"post-130629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-coding","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-cluely","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-jordi-hays","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-vibe-coding","18":"tag-y-combinator"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}