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Y Combinator Startup brings brainrot to developers' IDEs

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This is the dog that bites the man if he tries to touch the equipment in the factory, isn't it.

YC F25: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clad-labs

Doesn't seem like that much bad of an idea tbh.

So Emacs, but with native media? Hmm... you have my attention.

/s obviously

Payday for someone's pet project in the "We need to invest in every alternative IDE" bubble?

Could this just be a VS Code extension? I feel like it's not that hard.

This isn't a joke? YC really wrote them a check? For 500,000?

It did

This bothered me but the longer I think about it the more I think I get the idea.

It's a gambling company, really. The product is a slot-machine-like interface for software mining.

And that makes it better?

It's better for me not to go insane. Gambling at least makes this sounds like greed, and greedy companies fit in my world view.

Does it disgust me? Sure. In the same way casinos disgust me because they know how to reprogram people and they do it. They're the reason my dad became estranged from his father and I never met my grandfather.

I think software is a tool to emplower people. These youngsters are selling the idea that it can be a tool to enslave.

But here's the thing. They have to go against me and I still believe in empowering people with software and I spend all my time working on IDEs, not as a joke but to free people from, well, the kind of betting-illiteracy slavery this startup proposes to foster

Great reply, thanks.

This is both an operative and healthy take, thank you for sharing.

Not even Mike Judge could have foreseen such idiocy in the valley.

AI-powered NipAlert™ when?

In case someone is asking if there is a bubble.

Can someone ELI40?

I don't get it. Sorry.

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

M-x place-your-bets

Ok, so the AI bubble is bursting in a week.

the link to video goes to "we are still filming". finish, then publish, please.

gotta ship or get shipped, yo

They have a video on their YC page: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OgV-chad-ide-the-first-...

They also have a typo on their description... "AI coding creates a time span isn't long enough to do something new, and it's not short enough to be entirely negligible" Should say "that isn't long enough" or "which isn't long enough"

Always good to see people who give a shit getting rich off the results of their work /s

Please tell me this is satire.

I suspect that's how it started and then put it out there and gained momentum. Possibly as a joke.

As a note on satire, is there a term for satire which is perpetuated for long enough that is take seriously at some point by someone?

I have been referring to this pattern as "the pizzagate phenomenon". Basically, making a joke repeatedly until it reaches an audience that's not in on the joke. It is not quite a "self-fulfilling prophecy.

Asking Gemini (ironically), I come up with Poe's Law.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law]

> Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent (such as an emoticon or a disclaimer), it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views. This "law" describes exactly the scenario you've outlined: a joke or satirical statement, especially online where tone and body language are absent, is perpetuated long enough that it reaches an audience not "in on the joke" and is subsequently believed to be a genuine viewpoint.

Poe's Law is infamous if you are a slashdot reader of a certain age.

Yup, that's it! Thanks for the link.

I kinda explain a lot odd stuff through this lens.

Pizzagate was not satire, though. It was malicious disinformation. Aka lies.

Specifically to prepoison the collective consciousness to gloss over the newly revealed facts that real active politicians have participated in a large international trafficking ring

Yeah sure but Ycombinator still wrote them a $500.000 check

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