84: Fabricated Hype

Ian and Aaron discuss the need for an AI Newsletter, being beamed up to the mothership, web components, and more.

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• (00:00) - Cushy W-2's
• (03:29) - New Madness
• (15:28) - Aaron's Very Good Tweet
• (22:50) - AI Newsletter
• (33:40) - A Theory About The World
• (39:28) - A Love Letter To....Rails?
• (48:05) - Weekend Breakfast
• (56:49) - A New Practice

Links:

• Introducing Claude 4
• Junie, by JetBrains
• Windsurf
• Josh Pigford on X
• Aaron's tweet about AI
• Producer Dave's tweet about joining Laravel
• Ian Landsman & Andrey Butov's Bootstrapped.fm
• Adam's tweet about his love letter to Rails
• Instrumental Components 
• Paula's Runway Cafe