Scope Explosion

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.

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(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 - https://x.com/aarondfrancis/status/2040239281285767506?s=20 Aaron's viral tweet about the astronaut - https://x.com/aarondfrancis/status/2040068616196948001?s=20 Nate Silver vs. Nikita Bier on Twitter - https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/2041011470117335516?s=20 Ian's viral tweet about Claude & OpenClaw - https://x.com/IanLandsman/status/2040547693437591980?s=20 OpenAI acquires TBPN - https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/ Aaron's course on durable objects - https://databaseschool.com/series/durable-objects/videos/328 Laravel Cloud MySQL - https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/resources/databases/laravel-mysql Token Town - https://tokentown.com