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Token Town 001: What is Anthropic Doing?! May 15, 2026

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In the first-ever episode of Token Town Aaron & Ian break down pricing changes for Claude -p and the Agent SDK, a temporary 50% increase to Claude's limits, leaps in hacking ability, and more.

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131: Crush My Competitors May 12, 2026

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Ian and Aaron talk about what's cooking with Solo, why Aaron's hiring his first full-time employee, Ian's frustrations with moving the team to Codex, and a feel good AI story.

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(00:00) - Follow Up
(04:20) - Solo Update
(11:52) - Business Dad Pushback
(19:15) - Raising Money
(24:39) - Aaron's First Full-Time Employee
(31:30) - Ian's Hiring Troubles
(39:26) - A Laravel New 👀
(43:27) - Moving to Codex
(48:57) - Where's Outro?
(59:34) - A Feel Good AI Story

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130: Two Grandmas Roll Up May 05, 2026

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Ian and Aaron discuss the most harrowing experience of Aaron's life (complete with the funniest ad transition in Mostly Technical history), talk about Ian's trip to the Laravel Roadshow in NYC, and dive into what's cooking with Solo.

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(00:00) - The Birthday Party Incident
(10:45) - He Starts Doing The Slip & Slide
(21:01) - The Stuff of Legends
(26:57) - More Kids = More Productive?
(32:58) - Solo Is A Meta Harness
(48:13) - It's Video Week!
(55:06) - Laravel Roadshow

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129: The Bounds of My Pettiness Apr 28, 2026

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Ian and Aaron discuss how Aaron wants to destroy (?) Solo's competitors (!), using AI to find security holes in your app, delaying Token Town until May, and more.

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(00:00) - The AI Apocalypse
(11:18) - Delayed (Again)
(15:04) - Let's Talk About Solo
(29:24) - Number Go Up
(42:13) - Sell More Solo
(48:17) - Wrap It Up

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128: LaraProm Apr 21, 2026

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Ian and Aaron discuss Solo finally being ready & why its MCP capabilities are so intriguing, LaraProm (?!) at Laracon US (!), Ian's conundrum corner, and more.

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(00:00) - Vacation Is Awesome
(11:40) - Thunk Boys Follow Up
(14:12) - Ian's Conundrum Corner
(22:43) - Prom?!
(36:14) - Solo Is Ready
(52:58) - Solo's MCP Server
(01:16:02) - Token Town Debuts This Week

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127: Charge It To The Game w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne Apr 14, 2026

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Ian is joined by John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne of Thunk to talk about their new app Tidy, what constitutes a moat in the age of AI, why phone spam is the absolute worst, and so much more.

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(00:00) - Bottomless Pits
(03:05) - Tidyup.agency
(15:30) - Zero Risk Agency
(23:23) - The Schtick Is The Moat
(37:52) - You Might Need To Pay Some Professionals
(44:53) - Everyone's Playing Their Hands
(52:39) - Business Dad Thoughts
(01:22:03) - The Hard Pitch

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126: Scope Explosion Apr 07, 2026

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Ian and Aaron talk about why neither of them shipped this past week, how to surface features in an application, tweets going viral....oh, and they're starting a new podcast. Welcome to Token Town.

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(00:00) - Ian Didn't Ship
(06:33) - Aaron Didn't Ship
(11:48) - Solo & MCP
(21:16) - Surfacing Features
(32:45) - Is AI Hype Dying Down?
(37:42) - Viral Tweets
(50:29) - Filter Out vs. Filter In
(01:01:07) - Claude vs. OpenClaw
(01:15:29) - Durable Objects & Databases
(01:27:04) - Welcome to Token Town

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125: No Turning Back Mar 31, 2026

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Ian and Aaron talk about setting a release date (!) for Outro, huge updates to Solo, a new Cloudflare course, exciting news on the real estate front, and so much more.

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(00:00) - It's Shill Season
(04:02) - Ian's Gotta Ship Outro
(15:00) - Superpowers Are So Good
(20:15) - Cloudflare Durable Objects Course
(31:32) - Cloud Pricing
(36:41) - MCP Servers
(47:23) - Solo Updates
(01:00:18) - Aaron Francis Empire Update

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124: Old Man Yells At Cloud Mar 24, 2026

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Ian and Aaron talk about choosing between Faster.dev & Solo (which one is more likely to pay off?), the pros and cons of using AI to build bespoke internal apps, youth sports, Project Hail Mary, and so much more.

(00:00) - Kids Sports
(05:19) - Building Internal Tools
(17:23) - Empire of Scripts
(24:41) - Everybody Wants CLI & MCP
(29:46) - Solo Will Never Be Done
(45:46) - Faster.dev vs. Solo
(59:36) - Vibe Coding An App To $10k
(01:06:11) - Project Hail Mary

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123: Isolate The Claude Mar 18, 2026

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Ian and Aaron talk about more poker adventures, transcoding videos at scale, escaping the permanent underclass, worktrees vs. copy on write, and so much more.

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(00:00) - Ian Keeps Winning
(10:00) - Transcoding Videos
(25:33) - Superpowers
(39:40) - A Parade In Boston
(47:36) - Run Dangerously
(55:20) - Ire of the Worktree Maxi's
(01:02:56) - Escape the Permanent Underclass

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