Ian and Aaron discuss hiring new employees, Ian claiming he's over AI coding, huge updates to Outro, going big or going home on Token Town, and more.

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• (00:00) - Down to the River

• Texas Hill Country
• Token Town w/ Josh Pigford
• Kristen Foxen
• SEP IRA
• Corey Haines Marketing Skills on GitHub
• BlockNote
• Ian's tweet about AI & coding faster
• Joe Masilotti's post about deleting WebSockets

Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new employee, the latest on Outro, a surprise trip to Portland, and more.

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• (00:00) - Where Was Ian?

• Brett Adcock
• Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud
• Outro.fm
• TinySeed
• Jason Lengstorf
• Web Dev Challenge
• Kelsey Hightower

Aaron is joined this week by Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, to talk about building a seven figure business, why he feels less stress now than he did when he started, migrating from Heroku to Planetscale, and more.

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• (00:00) - 5 TB of Data

• Jesse Hanley
• Speedshop
• Jesse's Database School episode
• Tatami
• Dragonfly
• RedisShake
• Laravel Live Japan
• Daniel Coulbourne

Ian and Aaron discuss finally recording Token Town, Ian finally shipping Outro, the benefits of working in public, what's coming next to Solo, and more.

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• (00:00) - We Finally Recorded Token Town

• Token Town
• Outro
• Syntax
• Solo
• Faster
• Aaron's page for Tuple
• Derek Sivers's "Now" page

In the first-ever episode of Token Town Aaron & Ian break down pricing changes for Claude -p and the Agent SDK, a temporary 50% increase to Claude's limits, leaps in hacking ability, and more.

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• Claude pricing changes
• 'Anthropic beats OpenAI on business adoption'
• Claude Code weekly limits are 50% higher
• Solo
• Amp
• Superpowers
• Mythos & cybersecurity

Ian and Aaron talk about what's cooking with Solo, why Aaron's hiring his first full-time employee, Ian's frustrations with moving the team to Codex, and a feel good AI story.

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• (00:00) - Follow Up

• Solo
• TinySeed
• HelpSpot
• Codex
• Outro
• Token Town
• Mia's Horse Name Generator

Ian and Aaron discuss the most harrowing experience of Aaron's life (complete with the funniest ad transition in Mostly Technical history), talk about Ian's trip to the Laravel Roadshow in NYC, and dive into what's cooking with Solo.

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• (00:00) - The Birthday Party Incident

• Native PHP: The Vibes
• Solo
• Soak Testing
• Faster
• Vehikl
• Laravel Roadshow: Dallas

Ian and Aaron discuss how Aaron wants to destroy (?) Solo's competitors (!), using AI to find security holes in your app, delaying Token Town until May, and more.

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• (00:00) - The AI Apocalypse

• Nicholas Carlini - Black Hat LLMs
• Codex Security
• Token Town
• Laravel Roadshow: New York City
• Warp
• Conductor
• Solo's Discord
• Death of a Salesman on Broadway

Ian and Aaron discuss Solo finally being ready & why its MCP capabilities are so intriguing, LaraProm (?!) at Laracon US (!), Ian's conundrum corner, and more.

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• (00:00) - Vacation Is Awesome

• Southwest Airlines Assigned Seating
• Episode 127
• LaraProm at Laracon US
• Solo
• Outro
• Cloudflare Mesh
• Token Town
• Ian's hiring!

Ian is joined by John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne of Thunk to talk about their new app Tidy, what constitutes a moat in the age of AI, why phone spam is the absolute worst, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Bottomless Pits

• Thunk
• Daniel Coulbourne
• John Drexler
• Tidy
• Talking Businessly Ep 89 w/ Justin Jackson
• Laravel Road Show: New York City
• Silicon Valley clip 'Why would you go after revenue?'
• Laravel Partners
• Arango