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Move over, Vibe-Coding: I built an AI editor for STRESS-CODING

via Dev.toPaulo Henrique

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge Quantum Collapse is a React editor that monitors your face via webcam and sabotages your code when you blink. Sadly, it works. What I Built If you are working remote in 2026, you know how some companies like to ensure that you are "being productive". Keep your camera on, keep a "productivity tracker" installed and running while you try to work. "We trust you," they say, from behind six layers of monitoring software. And, at the same time, "vibe-coding" is the new hype. Everyone is talking about how we should stop caring about code quality and hard work, and let AI do the job for us. So I built an IDE that merges those two realities. What Quantum Collapse actually does The premise is straightforward. If you're watching the screen, your code stays intact. The moment you blink, or look away, or even commit the biological crime of hydrating your eyeballs, the editor "collapses the wavefunction" and starts quietly sabotaging your work.

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