Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new AI tool Counselors, something called "Hell Week", what's new with Solo and Outro, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Achieving The Impossible
• (11:26) - Making Things Easy For Humans
• (19:53) - Ian's Hyperkey Setup
• (28:59) - Aaron's Hell Week
• (44:42) - The Future
• (51:38) - Outro Is Cooking
• (58:36) - Valentine's Day & Other Updates
• (01:09:26) - OpenClaw

• Counselors
• Hyperkey
• Raycast
• Space Cadet Keyboard
• Solo
• Faster.dev
• Outro.fm
• Aaron's cardboard box saw

Ian and Aaron talk about the launch of Solo, Aaron's new terminal app for the desktop (!) plus Ian's return to Twitter and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Back On Twitter
• (08:20) - Mute The Super Spreaders
• (23:51) - HVAC Guys
• (28:40) - AI.com Ad
• (32:23) - The Launch of Solo
• (45:39) - Questions About Solo
• (56:53) - An Ode To Laravel's Queues
• (01:00:18) - Even More About Solo
• (01:06:35) - Behind The Scenes

• Ian on Twitter
• Ian on Bluesky
• Peter Steinberger on Twitter
• AI.com's Super Bowl Ad
• Onions.com
• Solo
• Mary Perry on Twitter
• Tauri
• NativePHP
• Behind the scenes of Aaron's video
• Memento Mori

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
• (06:12) - We Got Some Feedback
• (12:31) - Laracon India & AI SDK
• (17:49) - Tell The Machine To Do It
• (25:10) - Boost & Skills
• (29:55) - The Big Announcement
• (38:25) - Business Class Stage of the Castle
• (43:25) - Sleeping On Planes
• (49:33) - Unofficial Claude Code Meetup
• (01:00:09) - Aaron's Desktop App

• 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?
• (05:42) - Plow Problems
• (13:57) - Outro & HelpSpot Update
• (23:44) - Promotions
• (26:38) - Laravel AI SDK
• (31:27) - Faster.dev Update
• (44:49) - Ian's Got Problems With Amp
• (58:30) - Laravel New Gradient

• 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!
• (02:28) - Last Week In San Francisco
• (17:20) - Laravel AI SDK Announcement
• (26:23) - Who Listens To Podcasts?
• (31:17) - Announcing Faster.dev
• (49:49) - Logo Design
• (57:08) - Aaron's Stripe Video

• 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
• (04:01) - Taylor's Journey With AI
• (12:18) - Laravel AI SDK
• (24:48) - Coding In The AI Era
• (32:51) - Laravel Private Cloud
• (37:06) - Cloud CLI
• (38:48) - First Year of Cloud
• (43:05) - Sprites.dev
• (46:30) - What's Next
• (50:02) - Post Credit Scene

• 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?
• (02:46) - Ian Was Right
• (10:09) - Laravel vs. Rails
• (21:32) - AI Education!
• (48:15) - Do You Wanna Win?

• 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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Links:

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