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Mostly Technical

Hosted by Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical is a lively discussion on Laravel, business, and an eclectic mix of related topics.

Website ↗ Last published 27 October 2026 163 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Mostly Technical

“Nothing better than scrapping work. The AIs love scrapping. … How many times did that prevent me from scrapping stuff? It's like, well, I spent a month on this and like, I guess I'll just ship it because I spent a month on it. And now it's like, oh, I don't even know what happened. The AI did it. Yeah, who cares? I just trashed it.” — Ian Landsman, Mostly Technical
Ian Landsman · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Out of the hubris of my heart, I said, but I'm a software developer and you're a property tax company. I don't know if you can afford to hire me. And they're like, brother, we can afford to hire you. So, first learning, real businesses do have money. It's not just Silicon Valley.” — Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical
Aaron Francis · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I do think the value of unit tests has always been less than the value of feature tests. We just didn't want to write end-to-end tests because they were kind of a nightmare to set up and run.” — Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical
Aaron Francis · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“What I want is I don't want you to build AI into your app, I want you to make AI usable from outside your app. I want you to give me the best CLI, API, MCP in the world, and give me access to my data, and I'll take care of the rest. That's what I want as a very stupid developer.” — Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical
Aaron Francis · 29 Sep 2026 Listen →
“You person listening should not be trying to sell developers. And they're only getting worse. They used to be terrible. … Because they would always, even in the day, be like, well, I could build this help desk. I only need like four months. … Now they're like, I could do this in an afternoon. And they really can. So you don't want them.” — Ian Landsman, Mostly Technical
Ian Landsman · 29 Sep 2026 Listen →
“So many bootstrapper-type companies are scared to raise their prices on their existing customers, but you have to do that. It's just free money. And okay, if you raise your price 20% and 3% of your customers go out and vibe code their own replacement, you are still up a shit ton of money.” — Ian Landsman, Mostly Technical
Ian Landsman · 22 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Mostly Technical is hosted by Aaron Francis , Caleb Porzio , Dave Hicking and John Drexler .

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