Working on codearch.app

Joined October 2019
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LLMs are just so good with Laravel it almost feels like a cheat code. As long as you define proper guidelines, rules, and constraints, they can really ship apps fast. I had Claude build me custom commands to spin up new Laravel projects with Docker and all the tools I use preconfigured (Rector, PHPStan, some default Claude skills, Laravel Boost, Laravel AI, etc.) Side note: I'm playing around with an app I've always wanted to build, experimenting with having Claude build it entirely using the rules and constraints I've set up. I only check in to review. So far it's gotten 95% of the patterns right, and I'll ship it soon.
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Part 4 of the Laravel series is live where we wrap things up with testing, profile page, and automated deploys. This completes my Learn Laravel The Right Way series! Go check it out, link below!
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AI is great, but, it can take you down the wrong path. If I were "vibe coding" this app without questioning and pushing back on decisions, it would've had a potential for a major data leak. Still a huge time saver though. I'm spending a lot of time planning to implement fast.
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Part 3 of the Laravel series is live. In Part 1, we laid the foundation, in part 2 we built most of business logic. Now, we build dashboard, refactor to actions, and talk about code quality tools. Go check it out, link in the next tweet!
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Part 3 of the Laravel series is live. In Part 1, we laid the foundation, in part 2 we built most of business logic. Now, we build dashboard, refactor to actions, and talk about code quality tools. Go check it out, link in the next tweet!
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Coding was not the problem, I agree with that. But translating vision into software was, is and will be. It's figuring out what the product actually needs to do, making tradeoffs between competing priorities, understanding edge cases that nobody thought about, coordinating across teams, reviewing whether the solution is actually correct, and maintaining it over years. I have yet to see AI accomplish this. It's a force multiplier but I'll wait till the end of this year to see if I'm wrong.
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Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year. Not evolves. Dies. By December, AI won’t need programming languages. It generates machine code directly. Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution. Musk: β€œYou don’t even bother doing coding.” Code was never the point. It was friction. A tax we paid because machines didn’t speak human. AI just learned fluent human. The tax is gone. Now plug that into Neuralink. No syntax. No keyboard. No screen. Musk: β€œImagination-to-software.” Thought becomes executable. You imagine an outcome, the system architects and compiles it into reality instantly. We’re not automating programming. We’re erasing it from existence. The entire profession collapses into a thought. Decades of training reduced to irrelevance. The gap between idea and instantiation hits zero. You don’t build anymore. You imagine, and it materializes. Not incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for ten thousand years just became obsolete. Welcome to a world where the limiting factor isn’t skill, resources, or time. It’s whether you can picture what you want clearly enough for a machine to birth it into existence.
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Gio 🐘 retweeted
Part 2 (~5 hrs) of the Laravel series is live. In Part 1, we laid the foundation. Now, we build the Core Logic. But we don't just write code to make it work. While building the "easy" parts, we cover a ton of important architectural topics and dive into various rabbit holes, touching on everything from strict Authorization & Policies to specific techniques for optimizing our code (like Chunking, Batch Inserts, and more). Go check it out, link in the next tweet!
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Part 2 (~5 hrs) of the Laravel series is live. In Part 1, we laid the foundation. Now, we build the Core Logic. But we don't just write code to make it work. While building the "easy" parts, we cover a ton of important architectural topics and dive into various rabbit holes, touching on everything from strict Authorization & Policies to specific techniques for optimizing our code (like Chunking, Batch Inserts, and more). Go check it out, link in the next tweet!
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I used to spend hours getting intro & outro animations done for videos or to fill in spaces where I'm talking and nothing is happenning on the screen. Well, with the help of AI friend and Remotion I was able to get this with a few prompts and under 30 minutes. Not bad honestly.
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So Opus 4.6 was made slower than previous already slow 4.5 and to get the same speed as previous "good" Opus 4.5 (before they made it slower), you have to pay 5x extra? Might switch back to OpenAI or Gemini for the time being. Opus is considerebly slow since update.
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This is massive. Building AI tools and agents with Laravel just got so much easier 🀯
The Laravel AI SDK is now available. Really proud of this package and how easy it makes building AI features into your Laravel applications. Agents, images, audio, transcription, embeddings, similarity search, pg_vector support, and more. πŸ€– laravel.com/ai
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Part 1 of the new video is live on YouTube. Link below. We are building a simple daily task tracker app. But we're doing it the hard way, to learn "the right way". Part 1 is all about Architecture and Security. We are building a production-ready application using Laravel, but the concepts apply to any tech stack. We cover the full lifecycle: from drawing diagrams and planning the DB, to implementing a secure auth system that handles complex security vectors like timing attacks and password reset poisoning.
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Part 1 of the new video is live on YouTube. Link below. We are building a simple daily task tracker app. But we're doing it the hard way, to learn "the right way". Part 1 is all about Architecture and Security. We are building a production-ready application using Laravel, but the concepts apply to any tech stack. We cover the full lifecycle: from drawing diagrams and planning the DB, to implementing a secure auth system that handles complex security vectors like timing attacks and password reset poisoning.
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I might be in the minority here, but I'll take fillable properties over disabling mass assignment protection any day. Now that AI is writing a lot more code, it's far too easy to overlook raw request data being passed directly to a model, especially for juniors or when working on larger teams. By the way, part 1 of my new video series goes live tomorrow. First 4 hours covering authentication in depth in Laravel!
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I was originally hoping to upload this project as one long video, but after months of work, it ended up being over 12 hours and 250GB. To make it more manageable, I've decided to split it into 2-3 parts instead. The first part should be out next week (hopefully)! I definitely went down more rabbit holes than I originally planned, this was supposed to be a 2-3 hour build, but there was just a lot to cover. I've included some of the main topics and concepts in the image below.
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Gio 🐘 retweeted
We spent the last several months prepping this Laracasts series - and it's out now! 3 hours of AI techniques, tips, and demystifications for working developers. And I'm so happy to say that it's completely, entirely, unconditionally FREE to watch. laracasts.com/series/leverag…
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