Hey #laravel friends. Anyone going to @LaraconUS want to get together for a little jam session on day zero? Give me your feedback here in this poll so we can put together a plan.

PHP documentary teaser is amazing. 📺

Hello all you lovely twitter people. I hope you're having a great Friday. I'm cooking today. #laravel #buildinpublic #caffiene

Hey would you look at that! The new Draftsman logo is live on the @LaraconUS community sponsors list. laracon.us/#sponsors Thanks @taylorotwell and Abby G. See you in 54 days.

A tale as old as time 🤣

my theory on boomer ceos being opposed to remote work is they simply don't like their families

We're slowly entering a new chatper: Self-hosting AI models is no longer all-or-nothing. There is now a real middle ground between toy-setups and getting serious work done! Here's the practical breakdown 👇 → Qwen3.6-27B 30.5B total params. 3.3B active. 262K context. Runs in the sane range: ~$0.70/hr on Vast AI with an 80GB-class GPU. This is the practical entry point for agent work: Research, sorting, docs, support prep, and simple tool workflows. Small enough to run without doing anything ridiculous. Large enough to be worth taking seriously. → GLM-5.1 235B total params. 22B active. 256K context. Now you're in multi-GPU territory: ~$3-6/hr on Vast AI depending on setup and context. This is where self-hosting starts to hurt a bit. But for higher-value internal workflows, a few dollars per hour is not crazy if the agent can stay coherent, use tools properly, and finish more work without constant correction. → Kimi K2.6 744B total params. 40B active. This is the high-end setup: ~$12-20/hr on Vast AI with serious multi-H100 infrastructure. Not the normal founder setup. But useful as the upper edge of what open-weight agentic models can look like when you stop pretending everything has to run on cheap hardware. It's a tough balance right now! We want agents that can use tools, keep context, handle files/APIs, and finish actual work. But we don't want OpenAI and Antrophic to own us forever.

AI absolutely makes it easier to build software. But as @mattstauffer points out: the hard part was never just shipping v1. It’s the six months later: the integrations, the edge cases, the maintenance, the “oh… this feature is actually complicated.” share.transistor.fm/s/15e406…

Laravel AI SDK now supports sub-agents. 🤝 Return an agent from another agent’s tools() method and the parent agent can delegate focused tasks to it, just like any other tool. Sub-agents can have their own instructions, tools, provider config, and isolated context. laravel.com/docs/13.x/ai-sdk…

Do I know any Laravel devs near Boston? A new Laravel meetup starts up this week! meetup.com/boston-laravel-me…

Ship it!

Just 2 weeks until @LaravelLiveJP 🇯🇵 Last week, we had an on-site meeting at the venue and stood on the actual stage. In just two weeks, this place will be filled with 500 artisans from 40 countries. Still hard to believe. We’re almost there. Can’t wait to meet everyone 🚀

What can PHP do? Anything! Great video @brendt_gd 👏🏼

Hello all you lovely @laravelphp and #buildinpublic friends. Hope you have a great Friday. Only 80 days to @LaraconUS Hope you see you in Boston!

Coming up this month at KYPHPUG:

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90 days to @LaraconUS

Hey #laravel friends. Anyone going to @LaraconUS want to get together for a little jam session on day zero? Give me your feedback here in this poll so we can put together a plan.

Hello all your nice Laravel friends that are planning on going to @LaraconUS. I’m trying to gauge if there’s any interest in a doing an open rock and blues jam? Monday around lunch or early afternoon. Please RT for reach.