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Mostly Technical

Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis

Hosted by Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical is a lively discussion on Laravel, business, and an eclectic mix of related topics..

1 hour 11 minutes

118: We’re Going To Europe
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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Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, Ray by Spatie, and Redberry.

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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
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3 February 2026, 1:00 pm
59 minutes 53 seconds

117: The AI Is Out There
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
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29 January 2026, 1:00 pm
1 hour 6 minutes

116: Inside The Token Factory
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
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20 January 2026, 1:00 pm
52 minutes 9 seconds

Sweet Hang #4: Laravel AI SDK w/ Taylor Otwell
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
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16 January 2026, 1:00 pm
57 minutes 18 seconds

115: Do You Wanna Win?
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?
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13 January 2026, 1:00 pm
1 hour 5 minutes

114: Fight Fire With Fire
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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6 January 2026, 11:50 pm
1 hour 23 minutes

113: 2026 Predictions
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
- (03:39) - Manager of Agents
- (14:44) - Predictions!
- (30:57) - Ian's Personal Productivity System
- (40:17) - More Predictions!
- (58:02) - Vibe Code vs. Buying
- (01:03:17) - Even More Predictions!
- (01:17:15) - Christmas Presents
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30 December 2025, 1:00 pm
57 minutes 7 seconds

112: Token Machine
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
- (08:59) - Pre-Holiday Adventures
- (17:17) - Burning The Midnight Tokens
- (25:35) - Outlasted By AI Agents
- (38:06) - Thinking Businessy
- (44:34) - Advent of SQL Update
- (50:39) - Telegram Bots
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23 December 2025, 1:00 pm
1 hour 5 minutes

111: Hearts & Minds
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
- (04:14) - Weekend Update
- (18:29) - Ian's Resume Rant
- (33:57) - Advent of SQL
- (46:50) - Using AI to Help AI
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16 December 2025, 1:00 pm
1 hour 19 minutes

110: The Big Boy Plan
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
- (09:40) - Product vs Distribution
- (15:29) - Alcove
- (21:21) - What's Ian Building With AI?
- (27:18) - Using Claude With Gemini?
- (37:38) - Google or ChatGPT?
- (46:51) - Old Puritan Aaron
- (58:21) - The Game Is Unfair
- (01:03:20) - What's New With Database School?
- (01:07:13) - Sportsball!
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9 December 2025, 1:00 pm
1 hour 17 seconds

109: AI Bro
Ian and Aaron discuss Claude vs. Gemini, *another* Laravel New idea, drama on Thanksgiving, and so much more.
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- (00:00) - Happy Cyber Monday!
- (01:39) - Follow Up
- (07:24) - AI Update: Claude vs. Gemini
- (24:43) - Laravel New, Again, Again?
- (36:30) - Ian's 🐕 Drama
- (43:25) - Kids & Parks
- (48:47) - A Childlike Server
- (52:50) - Even More Follow Up
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2 December 2025, 1:00 pm
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