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Split a task into reasoning and execution to get deterministic behaviour out of a non-deterministic model.

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In this article, we’ll build an AI-powered Slack bot with the Laravel AI SDK. Unlike tools such as Claude Tag, it can switch AI providers, answer questions, execute tasks, and retrieve information from a knowledge base you control.

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Steve King builds a real order fulfilment flow to show how a workflow engine handles long-running processes in Laravel. The post covers steps, signals, retries, branching, human approval, compensation, and the surrounding tooling in one practical example.

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A live, zoomable ER diagram of your Laravel app's actual database schema, safe to run in production because it only ever reads structure, never rows.

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I found there wasn't any good SSRF prevention libraries for Laravel, so I built one. Very comprehensive tests based on this paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/wessels

https://github.com/securized/laravel-ssrf

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A deep dive into PHP attributes, from metadata and Reflection to practical design patterns, Laravel examples, performance, testing, and the cases where explicit code is better.

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A practical conference session on building PHP extensions with Go and FrankenPHP, then wiring them into Laravel and Symfony as native-feeling features. It uses an in-memory LRU cache as the example and offers a nice tour of framework flexibility and PHP internals.

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A deep dive into the Laravel Scheduler, from event registration and cron evaluation to mutexes, background processes, sub-minute tasks, and production-safe scheduling.

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Agentic commerce is a buzzy term, but is still pretty abstract for developers asking what they can actually build today. This post explains MPP through a working Laravel example, and introduces the new square1/laravel-mpp package.

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Laravel now supports attaching arbitrary metadata to routes, and the latest laravel-flare client shows that context in error reports and performance traces.

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A deep dive into Laravel Context, from request metadata and automatic log enrichment to hidden context, scoped values, queues, scheduled commands, and internals.

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Learn how Expressive can improve a Laravel application by keeping Eloquent as the database layer while moving business logic to fully typed objects.

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Learn how to use Eloquent Query Classes to organize important database logic in Laravel without adding a full repository layer.

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Every Laravel RAG tutorial builds the same ingestion pipeline (chunk, embed, store) and stops the moment the agent answers on screen. None of them check whether retrieval is any good. But retrieval quality is decided at ingestion, before the model runs once, and four decisions there fail with no error, no exception, no failed test:

• Chunking that severs the answer mid-sentence, so answer@1 falls while source hit@1 still looks healthy.
• An HNSW index built with vector_l2_ops while you query with cosine <=>. Postgres silently ignores the index and scans every row. Laravel 13's native whereVectorSimilarTo() hardcodes <=>, so it's easier to hit than ever. Shown with EXPLAIN.
• The embedding dimension baked into the vector(1536) column type, so "shrink it to save storage" is a migration plus a full re-embed that quietly drops retrieval to 47%.
• Ingesting and querying with different models, which turns every distance into noise.

Each bug is real code from a working repo, proven against an eval suite. It's the prequel to my earlier "Evaluating RAG in Laravel" post: build it, prove it, tune it. Every example verified against laravel/ai v0.7.2 and pgvector, with the full repo to clone.

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How we use class-based Laravel Pennant features, with a kill switch on every flag and a config-driven path to general availability.

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Bert De Swaef shows how PHP attributes made his Livewire components easier to read by attaching validation, URL sync, and event listeners directly to the properties and methods they belong to. Nice piece on how attributes reduce mental overhead, improve IDE support, and make components feel more self-documenting.

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A practical take on multi-agent setups in Laravel: another agent only earns its place when it needs its own model, tools, or instructions. Good piece on delegation tradeoffs, context handoff, and how to test routing before it becomes an expensive latency tax.

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Michael Dyrynda explains a subtle Laravel gotcha: #[RouteParameter] only reads the current route parameter value, it does not perform implicit model binding. Good reminder that the controller signature still matters when you expect a bound model inside a form request.

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You can't out-prompt an attacker — to the model, your system instructions and a malicious support ticket are the same text. So stop defending the prompt and lock down the boundaries you actually control: tools scoped to the authenticated user server-side, middleware that screens and logs, output handled as untrusted input, a human in front of anything irreversible, and a fake-free test that fails CI the moment someone drops the auth scope.

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Flare now supports log collection for Laravel and PHP apps, with real-time filtering and search in the same polished interface. A nice overview of what logging adds and how to get started with the new SDK release.

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