The Truth Behind Tech AI Layoffs
– youtu.be - submitted by Nuno Maduro
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Party of One for Code Review
Some good thoughts on code reviews in the emerging age of AI.
Read more [tidyfirst.substack.com]
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Eval Testing LLMs in PHPUnit
– joshhornby.com - submitted by Joshua Hornby
Prompts break silently. Here's how to catch regressions with PHPUnit evals before your users do.
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Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
Learn how to build an AI-powered drawing guessing game. In this little app, users will draw anything they like, and the AI will try to guess what it is.
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A Guide to Claude Code 2.0 and getting better at using coding agents
A good guide to get started with Claude Code. If you haven't jumped on that train yet, this might be a good entry point for you.
Read more [sankalp.bearblog.dev]
Build Your Own Private, Self-Hosted AI Applications with Ollama & Laravel
Imagine your team wants to bring AI into their workflow to automate routine tasks, extract insights from data, assist with content creation, or improve customer support. Smart move!
Read more [tighten.com]
A cartoonist's review of AI Art
Matthew Inman's take on AI Art. Some good points, and beautifully illustrated as always.
Read more [theoatmeal.com]
The State of PHP in 2025
The State of PHP 2025 survey by JetBrains examines how developers use, prefer, and rely on PHP, showing how this long-standing web language continues to modernize through new frameworks, improved tooling, and AI-assisted workflows.
Read more [blog.jetbrains.com]
Automatically fix production and performance problems in PHP and Laravel projects using AI
You can now use our MCP server to connect your AI agent to Flare. This way your AI has all context it needs to diagnose and fix production and performance problems of your PHP, JavaScript and Laravel projects.
In this blog post I’d like to tell you how you can use it, and how it works under the hood.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Let AI Interact with Your App via MCP
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
We’ve moved from command lines to GUIs, and now the next shift is here: AI that can actually use your app. This article introduces the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a powerful way to let AI interact directly with your applications—and why it’s more than just another tech acronym.
Read more [tighten.com]
How the Model Context Protocol works?
MCP is not a hosted service, a replacement for app logic, or a fix for hallucinations. It is a protocol that provides access to real tools and data, and still requires good prompts and UX
Read more [alexop.dev]
Transform your URLs with AI using our new Laravel package original
I'm excited to share that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-url-ai-transformer. This one can get the content of a webpage and transform it into something else using AI.
In this blog post, I'd like to share why I've created it and how you can use it.
An engineer's perspective on hiring
– jyn.dev
The current hiring process for engineers is flawed, wasting time and failing to differentiate between skilled candidates and those using AI.
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6 Weeks of Claude Code
Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate.
Read more [blog.puzzmo.com]
On full-breadth developers
It looks like full-breadth developers—people with both technical and product capabilities—stand to gain as clear winners in the AI era.
Read more [justin.searls.co]
How to Make Your AI Agent Program PHP and Laravel with Grace and Style
We've converted our PHP and Laravel coding guidelines into AI-friendly instructions so Claude Code and other AI agents can generate code that matches our established programming style.
Read more [spatie.be]
Running Claude Code with a Local LLM: A Step-by-Step Guide
Even though I use Claude Code, I haven't used local models. It seems very convenient to be able to use Claude Code without an internet connection.
Read more [www.shawnmayzes.com]
Continuous AI in software engineering
Continuous AI in software engineering involves integrating AI tooling automatically into existing development flows, such as automated PR reviews, issue labeling, and daily summaries.
Read more [www.seangoedecke.com]
How to Build an Agent
A good overview on how to build an AI agent. Explained without hype and good code examples.
Read more [ampcode.com]
10 Efficient (and Fun) Ways to Seed Your Database
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
This article shares 10 efficient and fun ways to seed your database, from classic PHP arrays to importing CSVs and using AI to generate random, realistic data.
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