When asked who a successful leader is, some people will say Barack Obama, some will say Jean Luc Picard, and others may say Oprah Winfrey. For many people, a successful leader is someone who has vision, a well-defined strategy, and is great at decision-making. These skills help a leader to motivate teams, drive sales, and ensure that the teams they oversee offer great long-term performance.
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.
In the never-ending quest for developer productivity gains, a new default setting has been applied to engineering leadership teams: buy an AI coding tool. It's an understandable instinct. AI can now produce code in seconds, and vendors promise gains measured in hours saved per engineer, each week. But for most teams, the results are underwhelming. Delivery timelines barely budge, and the sense of "we're moving faster" fades.