124: Old Man Yells At Cloud
From Mostly Technical by Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis
March 24, 2026 · 1h 15m · Episode 129
About this episode
Ian and Aaron discuss various topics including AI for internal apps, youth sports, and compare Faster.dev with Solo.
Ian and Aaron talk about choosing between Faster.dev & Solo (which one is more likely to pay off?), the pros and cons of using AI to build bespoke internal apps, youth sports, Project Hail Mary, and so much more. Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments , Bento , Laravel Private Cloud , IttyBit , and Ray by Spatie . Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. (00:00) - Kids Sports (05:19) - Building Internal Tools (17:23) - Empire of Scripts (24:41) - Everybody Wants CLI & MCP (29:46) - Solo Will Never Be Done (45:46) - Faster.dev vs. Solo (59:36) - Vibe Coding An App To $10k (01:06:11) - Project Hail Mary Links: Aaron on the baseball field Project Hail Mary Jason Fried on Twitter Laravel AI SDK Laravel MCP Solo Will King Aaron's video on YouTube Eric Barnes' new venture
People in this episode
Hosts: Ian Landsman, Aaron Francis
Topics covered
- AI in app development
- youth sports
- internal tools
- Faster.dev vs Solo
- Project Hail Mary
- entrepreneurship
Keywords
- Faster.dev
- Solo
- AI
- internal tools
- youth sports
- Project Hail Mary
- entrepreneurship
Sponsors
SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, Ray by Spatie
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Faster.dev, Solo
Books & works: Project Hail Mary
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