126: 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
• 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