Ian and Aaron talk about the Mostly Technical Pre-Party at Laracon EU (!), Aaron's new desktop app (!!), sleeping on planes, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Burn The Candle at Three Ends

• Afrin
• NyQuil
• Neti Pot
• Casey Neistat's video on NYC trash
• Laracon India
• Laravel Live Japan
• Zoolander - Magnum
• Laracon EU
• Unofficial Claude Code Meetup
• Visakan Veerasamy
• Sara Dietschy
• Aaron's Desktop App
• Tauri

Ian and Aaron talk about being stuck at home due to the weather, major updates to Outro.fm and Faster.dev, an important update to the Laravel New experience, and more.

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• (00:00) - No True Texas?

• Yarbo Snowblower
• Outro
• Laracon India
• Laracon EU
• Laravel AI SDK tweet
• Matt Stenson
• Faster.dev
• Laravel Boost v2
• Claude Skills
• Amp
• Amp's Oracle

Ian and Aaron recap their trip to San Francisco to see the first demo of the Laravel AI SDK before going in-depth on the Faster.dev announcement!

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• (00:00) - Aaron Watched A Movie!

• The Accountant 2
• Ben Affleck & Matt Damon on the limits of AI
• Browserbase
• Amp
• Tartine
• Aaron & Leah YouTube Short
• Faster.dev launch video

Ian and Aaron are joined by Taylor Otwell for their first ever in-person episode of Mostly Technical to talk about everything from the Laravel AI SDK to Private Cloud to vibe coding MUD's and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Imaginary Tech Stuff Is Real

• Multi-user Dungeon
• Laravel Simplifier
• Elevenlabs
• Prism
• Welcome to Gas Town
• Sprites.dev

Ian and Aaron talk about opinionated frameworks in the era of AI, Aaron's new pivot (!), Ian being right, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Ricotta? Regatta?

• Laravel's AI Docs
• Taylor's tweet thread about Laravel's opinions being good for AI
• A Software Library With No Code
• Ralph Wiggum, explained
• DHH - Promoting AI agents
• Tanstack
• NativePHP
• Producer Dave's blog post about Billboard

Ian and Aaron are dealing with the liminal space of the holiday season, talking about their upcoming trip to San Francisco to see the Laravel AI SDK demo, and making even more predictions for 2026.

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• Texas de Brazil
• Delucca Pizza
• Demolition Man
• Ricotta Cheese
• 'Notes from the sick ward'
• SF Meetup: First Look at Laravel AI SDK
• jetBlue Mint

Ian and Aaron are answering your questions about what's coming in 2026, covering everything from AI shrinking dev teams to Elon becoming a trillionaire and so much more.

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• (00:00) - No Rest For The Weary

• Aaron Levie's Tweet
• Parkinson's Law
• Groq's deal with Nvidia
• Claude's 2x Holiday Promotion
• Obsidian
• Philip K Dick
• Cursor migrated from Sanity
• Air Span 2
• Stan Smith's

Ian and Aaron talk about Santa (obviously), do you still need an MBA (maybe not so obvious), why Ian isn't burning as many tokens as possible to get Outro out the door, what people are building with the Telegram API, and more.

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• (00:00) - Magically Better

• F150 Lightning
• Rivian Digital Key
• VW Atlas
• 1995 4 Runner
• Los Tacos No. 1
• Bass Pro Shop's Santa's Wonderland
• Codex 5.2
• PHPStan
• Advent of SQL
• Jeffrey Way's post on building a Telegram Bot
• Nutgram

Ian and Aaron discuss how Aaron's orchestrating fly.io boxes for Database School, why sometimes you need to use AI to help AI, and why Costco is truly a great place.  Plus an all-time Ian resume rant and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Classic Little Kid Disease

• Google Classroom
• NorthPark Center
• Danbury Railway Museum
• Melissa & Doug
• Thomas & Friends
• Advent of SQL on Database School
• CodeRabbit
• Stratechery

Ian and Aaron discuss all things AI this week - from Claude Max to pairing Gemini with Claude to why people want to code but they don't want to sell and so much more.  Plus Aaron's secret soccer past and why the game (of getting a job) isn't fair.

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• (00:00) - OD on AI

• Claude Max
• Aaron's tweet about a design tool he built
• Alcove
• Laravel Wrapped 2025
• Radix Colors
• Amp
• CodeRabbit
• Primeagen - 1 year, no job
• Hassan Nazari