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?

Links:Laravel's AI Docs - https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/ai Taylor's tweet thread about Laravel's opinions being good for AI - https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/2009706915543298337?s=20 A Software Library With No Code - https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/01/08/a-software-library-with-no-code.html Ralph Wiggum, explained - https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ralph-wiggum-explained-the-claude-code-loop-that-keeps-going-3250dcc30809 DHH - Promoting AI agents - https://world.hey.com/dhh/promoting-ai-agents-3ee04945 Tanstack - https://tanstack.com NativePHP - https://nativephp.com Producer Dave's blog post about Billboard - https://www.patreon.com/posts/its-time-to-147079529?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link