126: Scope Explosion

About this episode

Ian and Aaron discuss their lack of shipping, feature surfacing in applications, and the launch of their new podcast, Token Town.

Ian and Aaron talk about why neither of them shipped this past week, how to surface features in an application, tweets going viral....oh, and they're starting a new podcast. Welcome to Token Town. Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments , Bento , & Laravel Private Cloud . Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. (00:00) - Ian Didn't Ship (06:33) - Aaron Didn't Ship (11:48) - Solo & MCP (21:16) - Surfacing Features (32:45) - Is AI Hype Dying Down? (37:42) - Viral Tweets (50:29) - Filter Out vs. Filter In (01:01:07) - Claude vs. OpenClaw (01:15:29) - Durable Objects & Databases (01:27:04) - Welcome to Token Town Links: Aaron's tweet about getting to 120fps Aaron's viral tweet about the astronaut Nate Silver vs. Nikita Bier on Twitter Ian's viral tweet about Claude & OpenClaw OpenAI acquires TBPN Aaron's course on durable objects Laravel Cloud MySQL Token Town

People in this episode

Hosts: Ian Landsman, Aaron Francis

Topics covered

• shipping delays
• feature surfacing
• AI hype
• viral tweets
• new podcast
• durable objects
• databases

Keywords

• shipping
• features
• AI
• viral tweets
• Token Town
• durable objects
• databases

Sponsors

SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI

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