115: Do You Wanna Win?

Ian and Aaron talk about opinionated frameworks in the era of AI, Aaron's new pivot (!), Ian being right, and so much more.
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• (00:00) - Ricotta? Regatta?

• (02:46) - Ian Was Right

• (10:09) - Laravel vs. Rails

• (21:32) - AI Education!

• (48:15) - Do You Wanna Win?

Links:• Laravel's AI Docs (laravel.com/docs/12.x/ai)
• Taylor's tweet thread about Laravel's opinions being good for AI (x.com/taylorotwell/status/2009706915543298337?…)
• A Software Library With No Code (dbreunig.com/2026/01/08/a-software-library-wit…)
• Ralph Wiggum, explained (jpcaparas.medium.com/ralph-wiggum-explained-th…)
• DHH - Promoting AI agents (world.hey.com/dhh/promoting-ai-agents-3ee04945)
• Tanstack (tanstack.com)
• NativePHP (nativephp.com)
• Producer Dave's blog post about Billboard (patreon.com/posts/its-time-to-147079529?utm_me…)