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AF Aaron Francis Aaron Francis Software developer and database educator, co-founder of Try Hard Studios with Steve Tenuto, making video courses on SQLite, Postgres and MySQL for developers.

“Being responsible for any server on the internet right now is a liability. … I'm going through all of my old side projects and content sites, and I'm pointing Claude at it and saying, you have an army of workers, figure out how to get this off of Forge. … I got a book to write. I can't be monitoring CVEs. This is crazy.”

Mostly Technical · Bootstrapped & Indie SaaS · November 2026

“Being responsible for any server on the internet right now is a liability. … I'm going through all of my old side projects and content sites, and I'm pointing Claude at it and saying, you have an army of workers, figure out how to get this off of Forge. … I got a book to write. I can't be monitoring CVEs. This is crazy.” — Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical

Context

Aaron explains his 'batten down the hatches' project of moving his servers onto a managed platform after a string of security vulnerabilities. He notes the platforms involved are owned by his employer.

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Mostly Technical Around 1:08:24 into the episode
Aaron Francis

I just, and I am a very smart boy. I'm a very smart boy. You're

Ian Landsman

not even a rational actor. You're an irrational actor, but you even use some of the things that you're doing. I can't do it. I just can't

Aaron Francis

do it. Being responsible for any server on the internet right now is a liability. I want Chris Fidel to carry that liability on my behalf. I want Dowdy. I want him crying, tears, sweating. Correct. I want him crying and throwing up because Kubernetes has a zero day. I don't want to, I don't want it. And I can't do any of that. That is not my responsibility. I am also, I'm also ripping out some large packages that have had a history of finding some onesie twosies. And I'm…

Ian Landsman

That's like even my dev here. They're like, I didn't even know about this Chrome thing, which Chrome has this big zero day that's like puts everything at risk, including like your playwright scripts and all the stuff. Including Claude Desktop, yes.

Aaron Francis

Because it's all the desktop,

Ian Landsman

all the stuff. Yeah. Right. So like it's crazy out there. That's why nobody wants to write their own software. Nobody does. Only crazy people want to do it. And the thing is, it's not even Laravel Cloud can only save you so much. Laravel Cloud will save you from a certain type of exploit, but…

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