112: Token Machine

Ian and Aaron talk about Santa (obviously), do you still need an MBA (maybe not so obvious), why Ian isn't burning as many tokens as possible to get Outro out the door, what people are building with the Telegram API, and more.
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• (00:00) - Magically Better

• (08:59) - Pre-Holiday Adventures

• (17:17) - Burning The Midnight Tokens

• (25:35) - Outlasted By AI Agents

• (38:06) - Thinking Businessy

• (44:34) - Advent of SQL Update

• (50:39) - Telegram Bots

Links:• F150 Lightning (ford.com/trucks/f150-lightning)
• Rivian Digital Key (stories.rivian.com/software-digital-key-46)
• VW Atlas (vw.com/en/models/atlas.html)
• 1995 4 Runner (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_4Runner#Third_gen…))
• Los Tacos No. 1 (lostacos1.com)
• Bass Pro Shop's Santa's Wonderland (basspro.com/b/santas-wonderland)
• Codex 5.2 (openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex)
• PHPStan (phpstan.org)
• Advent of SQL (databaseschool.com/series/advent-of-sql/videos…)
• Jeffrey Way's post on building a Telegram Bot (x.com/jeffrey_way/status/2002736261367529634?s…)
• Nutgram (nutgram.dev)