"Called "Chad: The Brainrot IDE," the new startup is the concoction of atech entrepreneur named Richard Wang. The pitch goes like this: when software developers use AI-enabled software development environments - software designed to support " vibe coding," basically - there's usually a bit of downtime as the AI software churns out the programming Notice anything missing? That's right: there's nothing for developers to gamble on!"
"Chad solves this. According to TechCrunch, the new vibe coding tool's entire twist is that it adds a separate window of brainrot for software developers to dink around on as the AI generates code. These include social media apps like TikTok and X-formerly-Twitter, gambling apps like Stake, and dating apps like Tinder. "AI coding creates a time span [that] isn't long enough to do something new, and it's not short enough to be entirely negligible," Chad's founders explain in their launch announcement on YCombinator."
Y Combinator invested in a startup called Chad, founded by Richard Wang, that targets developers using AI-enabled IDEs. Chad supplies a persistent brainrot window that surfaces social, gambling, and dating apps to occupy developers during AI inference downtime. The tool claims to automatically end a brainrot session when code generation finishes, aiming to reduce off-IDE distractions and return developers to work on schedule. Early beta users reportedly saved an average of 15 minutes per hour of vibe coding after switching to Chad. Some critics argue the product elevates rage-bait marketing into a product strategy and emphasize gambling as its core differentiation.
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