80: The Big Announcement w/ Taylor Otwell

Ian and Aaron are joined by Taylor Otwell to discuss the Mostly Technical Party at Laracon, what exactly Taylor does on a day-to-day basis, how they all use AI, and so much more.
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• (00:00) - Revenge of the Sith

• (09:18) - The Big Announcement

• (12:00) - Laracon US

• (14:57) - Taylor's Day-to-Day

• (21:57) - Forge Updates

• (28:00) - Starter Kits & WorkOS

• (36:35) - Using AI

• (55:11) - You Still Need Good Ideas

• (01:05:28) - Tina Fey & Amy Poehler

• (01:10:48) - Aaron's Climbing Wall

Links:• Mostly Technical Laracon Pre-Party! (lu.ma/d9cdjjcw) sponsored by Diagonal (Godiagonal.com)
• Revenge of the Sith re-release (thewaltdisneycompany.com/star-wars-revenge-sit…)
• Andor Season 2 (ondisneyplus.disney.com/show/andor)
• Kamal (kamal-deploy.org)
• Jason McCreary on Twitter (x.com/gonedark?s=21)
• YAGNI (tighten.com/insights/tpt-yagni)
• Aaron's ChatGPT sidebar (x.com/aarondfrancis/status/1915414221988184235)
• Aaron's video about AI (t.co/5cd9zBrC4w)
• OpenAI's Codex (github.com/openai/codex)
• Tina Fey & Amy Poehler on tour (tinaamytour.com)
• Aaron's tweet about his climbing wall (x.com/aarondfrancis/status/1916626887679303703)