--- title: Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds | daily.dev description: This TechCrunch piece lists last-minute Halloween costume ideas for tech nerds. Suggestions include dressing as 'recursive self-improvement' by carrying a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/last-minute-halloween-costumes-for-tech-nerds-hwxk7ocor twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds | daily.dev og:description: This TechCrunch piece lists last-minute Halloween costume ideas for tech nerds. Suggestions include dressing as 'recursive self-improvement' by carrying a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/last-minute-halloween-costumes-for-tech-nerds-hwxk7ocor og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hWXk7oCOR.png og:image:alt: Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This TechCrunch piece lists last-minute Halloween costume ideas for tech nerds. Suggestions include dressing as 'recursive self-improvement' by carrying a self-help book and a yoga mat, or as a 'deceptively cute AI agent' using a poofy jacket and asking for Gmail access. Other ideas: glasses with a red dot for 'a guy recording with Meta glasses', a Mark Zuckerberg costume with a shirt reading 'Building is my love language', an 'AI usage limit notification' sign to scare vibe-coders, a PHP T-shirt to represent 'a PHP vulnerability', and a Bryan Johnson 'GLP-Bryan' couples costume. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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