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 ).

While the writers talk about that regularly, he said, they don’t pursue it because today’s actual Silicon Valley is so bizarre, it can’t be parodied.

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 Fool’s 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 th

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