Alfred walks through building production-ready AI agents using Laravel paired with Claude API. Covers tool use, conversation memory, and structured outputs. Key insight: treating agents as stateless HTTP workers with Redis-backed memory gives the best scalability.
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LaravelClaudeRedisForge
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โUse stateless agent workers for scale
โRedis for conversation memory
โStructured outputs reduce parsing errors
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Why No-Code is Eating the Agency Model
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Opinion piece arguing that traditional dev agencies will be disrupted by no-code + AI combos. Alfred shares revenue numbers from his own pivot. Controversial take: "Junior devs who can prompt-engineer will outship senior devs who can't."
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CursorBoltv0Supabase
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โLearn prompt engineering regardless of seniority
โNo-code + AI is a force multiplier
โAgency margins will compress
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Hot takes on AI coding assistants in 2026
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Spicy thread ranking AI coding assistants. Alfred puts Cursor at #1, Copilot at #3 (controversial), and says Windsurf is underrated. Key quote: "The IDE war is over. The agent war is just beginning."
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CursorCopilotWindsurfCline
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โEvaluate Windsurf if you haven't
โAgent-based coding is the next frontier
โIDE choice matters less than agent quality
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The Future of PHP in the AI Era
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Alfred guests on Laravel News Podcast discussing how PHP/Laravel remains relevant in the AI era. Argues that PHP's simplicity is an advantage for AI-generated code. Interesting data point: 40% of his AI agent code is now generated by AI itself.
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LaravelPHP 8.4SaloonPrism
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โPHP simplicity helps AI generate better code
โLook into Prism for LLM integration
โ40% AI-generated code is achievable today
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Weekly AI Tools Roundup #42
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Weekly roundup covering new releases: Claude 4 Opus launch, Cursor 0.45 with multi-file agents, and a new open-source RAG framework called "Haystack 2.5". Alfred's pick of the week: using Claude artifacts for rapid prototyping.
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Claude 4 OpusCursor 0.45Haystack 2.5Artifacts
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โTry Claude artifacts for prototyping
โHaystack 2.5 worth evaluating for RAG
โCursor multi-file agents are game-changing
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Scaling AI Consulting โ Lessons from 50 Client Projects
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Alfred reflects on patterns from 50+ client AI projects. Most common failure: trying to automate everything at once. Most successful approach: find the one painful manual process and nail it.
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LaravelClauden8nNotion
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โStart with one painful process, not everything
โValue-based pricing works better for AI projects
โSet realistic expectations early
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Why I Left Vercel for Coolify
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Developer shares their migration from Vercel to self-hosted Coolify on Hetzner. Honest pros/cons โ cheaper and more control, but more maintenance. Good for side projects and small teams.
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CoolifyVercelHetznerDocker
Takeaways
โSelf-hosting can cut costs 10x at scale
โCoolify v4 handles most Vercel features
โKeep Vercel for client-facing production
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Most AI wrappers will die in 6 months
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Alfred argues that startups building thin wrappers around AI APIs are doomed as the APIs themselves add those features. Recommends building on primitives, not platforms.
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OpenAI APIAnthropic API
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โBuild on primitives, not platforms
โWrapper startups face existential risk from API providers
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Astro 5.0: The Content Layer Revolution
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Official walkthrough of Astro 5.0's Content Layer API. Unified interface for content from any source โ files, APIs, databases. Fully type-safe with Zod schemas. Game changer for content-heavy sites.
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AstroContent Layer APIMDXZod
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โContent Layer unifies local and remote content
โType-safe content queries out of the box
โConsider Astro for your next content site
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The Claude 4 Release Changes Everything for PHP Developers
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Claude 4PHPCode GenerationBenchmarks
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Newsletter deep-dive on Claude 4's improvements for code generation, specifically PHP. Extended context window means entire Laravel codebases can be analyzed. 40% improvement in code accuracy for Laravel-specific tasks.