SaaS is dying on its own
Ed and Peter finally record the conversation they have every week anyway. Ed lays out Scalpels — a fleet of small, open-source, agent-first apps you deploy to your own Laravel Cloud account — and Hone, the Nightwatch alternative that sends your telemetry to your own endpoint and hands the findings to an agent instead of a dashboard. Peter explains Sputnik Intelligence, why he put a Rust search engine on Laravel Cloud, and why he thinks data may still be a good business even if code is not. Along the way: scale-to-zero and the database session driver that quietly keeps your database awake, Campfire on Laravel Cloud's new Ruby runtime, the Scalpels Lab, Figma restricting which agent harnesses may use its MCP, whether AI is any use outside of work, and talking to your agents out loud.