– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick – Edit
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.
Read more [tighten.com]
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]
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– tighten.com – Edit
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!
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– theoatmeal.com – Edit
Matthew Inman's take on AI Art. Some good points, and beautifully illustrated as always.
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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]
– flareapp.io – Edit
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]
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick – Edit
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]
– alexop.dev – Edit
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]
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
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.
The current hiring process for engineers is flawed, wasting time and failing to differentiate between skilled candidates and those using AI.
Read more [jyn.dev]
– blog.puzzmo.com – Edit
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]
– justin.searls.co – Edit
It looks like full-breadth developers—people with both technical and product capabilities—stand to gain as clear winners in the AI era.
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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]
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 involves integrating AI tooling automatically into existing development flows, such as automated PR reviews, issue labeling, and daily summaries.
Read more [www.seangoedecke.com]
– ampcode.com – Edit
A good overview on how to build an AI agent. Explained without hype and good code examples.
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– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick – Edit
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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by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read – Edit
When Laravel switched to a simpler exception page, the ability to display solutions for an exception was lost.
Our latest package, called spatie/laravel-error-solutions brings back that powerful feature. When installed, it will display solutions for most common exceptions.
Here’s how that looks it:
And yes, some solutions, like the one in the screenshot above, can be executed on the exception page too.
In this blog post, I’d like to tell you all about it!
– geoligard.com - submitted by Goran Popović – Edit
A step-by-step guide on how to utilize the new Assistants and Vision APIs with Laravel.
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Recently, OpenAI released an update for ChatGPT, introducing new features that allow developers to describe language model functions. Let's leverage this new functionality in Laravel
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