Tool calling, file reading, query execution, test running, and the moment it refactored a service class I hadn’t touched in two years — a real experiment with the Laravel AI SDK’s agent capabilities, including what went right, what went wrong, and what I’d never let… Read More »I Let an AI Agent Loose on My Laravel Codebase for a Week — Here’s What It Actually Did
Slow queries, memory hogs, failed jobs, cache misses, exception spikes, and the exact users hitting errors — Pulse is the production monitoring tool baked into Laravel 11+ that most teams install, glance at once, and never configure properly. Here’s how to actually use it. Most… Read More »Laravel Pulse: The Real-Time Dashboard That Knows More About Your App Than You Do
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Scopes chained on top of scopes, relationships loaded in loops, casts running on columns you never read, global scopes you forgot exist — a deep dive into what Eloquent is actually sending to your database and the query-level optimisations that cut response times in half.… Read More »Eloquent Is Doing Too Much — And Your Database Is Paying the Price
v-memo, shallowRef vs ref, defineAsyncComponent, keep-alive done right, computed property pitfalls, unnecessary re-renders you don’t know are happening, and the Vue DevTools flame graph that exposes all of it — a real performance audit on a real app. Vue 3 is fast out of the… Read More »Vue 3 Performance in 2026: The Optimisations That Actually Move the Needle
SQL injection, mass assignment, XSS, CSRF, insecure direct object references, exposed .env files, missing rate limiting, API key leakage — a brutally honest security audit of a typical Laravel app with the exact fixes for each vulnerability. Most Laravel applications are not insecure by design.… Read More »Laravel Security in 2026: The Checklist Your App Probably Fails on Items 4, 7, and 11
Two packages, one problem — integrating LLMs into a Laravel app. Prism is community-built, elegant, and provider-agnostic from day one. The Laravel AI SDK is official, broad, and deeply integrated with the framework. Here’s the honest comparison: where each shines, where each fails, and which… Read More »Prism PHP vs Laravel AI SDK: I Used Both in Production. Here’s My Honest Verdict.
Laravel Prompts, terminal-based UIs, Artisan commands with interactive menus, progress bars, and table output — the internal tooling stack that lets solo developers and small teams manage production data without building a full Filament panel. Every project hits the moment where someone — you, a… Read More »The Laravel Feature That Replaced My Entire Admin Panel in 47 Lines of Code
Vector embeddings, pgvector in PostgreSQL, chunking strategies, semantic search, context injection, and the Laravel AI SDK holding it all together — a complete walkthrough of building a document Q&A system that actually gives useful answers. The moment Laravel 13 shipped in March 2026 with a… Read More »I Built a RAG System in Laravel in a Weekend — Here’s Exactly How It Works
Failed jobs that silently disappear, workers that freeze under memory pressure, jobs that run twice because of a missed timeout, and the one queue configuration mistake that every new Laravel app makes — the production queue guide nobody writes until something breaks at 3am. Laravel… Read More »Laravel Queues Are Lying to You — Here’s What’s Actually Happening in Production