About this episode

Ian and Aaron discuss various topics including Sol Ultra, AI pricing, and Aaron's new side project.

Ian and Aaron discuss letting Sol Ultra rip for over 2 days straight, Aaron's new side project, problems with macOS, trying to price AI usage in apps, and more. Sponsored by Bento & DropInBlog . Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. Going to Laracon? Sign up for the Mostly Technical Pre-Party ! (00:00) - Tim Cook's Office (06:00) - Introducing cfmpeg (12:27) - Ian & ElevenLabs (15:04) - Subscriptions In Outro (18:45) - World Cup (24:06) - Sol Ultra (28:07) - An Update on HelpSpot AI Pricing (52:04) - Aaron’s Custom Model (01:07:40) - Next Week: Laracon US! (01:10:23) - Great Illustrated Classics Links: cfmpeg ElevenLabs GPT-5.6 Sol Ian on Notes on Work HelpSpot AI Token Town Episode 008 BigSkyDevConf Laracon US Great Illustrated Classics

People in this episode

Hosts: Ian Landsman, Aaron Francis

Topics covered

• AI pricing
• macOS issues
• side projects
• Sol Ultra
• subscriptions
• Laracon

Keywords

• Sol Ultra
• AI pricing
• macOS
• cfmpeg
• ElevenLabs
• Laracon
• subscriptions

Sponsors

Bento, DropInBlog

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: cfmpeg, ElevenLabs, HelpSpot AI, GPT-5.6, Token Town

Books & works: Great Illustrated Classics

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