I've been developing for 25 years, building solutions for companies like Pfizer down to one-person startups. A lot has changed since the days I could just reach for Laravel for every web project. Today, with breakthroughs in AI and tools like Supermavin, ChatGPT, N8N.io, and more, I've had to step back and ask myself: What are the right tools for the job now?

No longer is it just Laravel, but often it's Laravel + N8N + low-code magic. It's about rethinking how I solve problems—like a recent opt-out system that took days to code in Laravel but could now be spun up in hours with N8N.

Join me as I dive into:

How my approach to building systems has evolved
The cost, time, and complexity differences between yesterday’s and today’s methods
How tools like Bolt.new, Cursor.ai, and FlutterFlow have become essential parts of my development toolbox
Discover how I've embraced new superpowers, reducing overhead, maintenance, and making projects more efficient. 🦸‍♂️

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I've been developing for 25 years, building solutions for companies like Pfizer down to one-person startups. A lot has changed since the days I could just reach for Laravel for every web project. Today, with breakthroughs in AI and tools like Supermavin, ChatGPT, N8N.io, and more, I've had to step back and ask myself: What are the right tools for the job now?

No longer is it just Laravel, but often it's Laravel + N8N + low-code magic. It's about rethinking how I solve problems—like a recent opt-out system that took days to code in Laravel but could now be spun up in hours with N8N.

Join me as I dive into:

How my approach to building systems has evolved
The cost, time, and complexity differences between yesterday’s and today’s methods
How tools like Bolt.new, Cursor.ai, and FlutterFlow have become essential parts of my development toolbox
Discover how I've embraced new superpowers, reducing overhead, maintenance, and making projects more efficient. 🦸‍♂️

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Summary

This chapter will be about agnostic tools. I've already covered tools in the Tools Overview chapter and agnostic drivers in the Agnostic Driver chapter. However, I want to examine how these work and why it is important to use an agnostic system.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand how hard it is to switch between the most different systems, such as OpenAi and Claude. We will then see how important it is to fall back quickly to the other Tool when one system is down or having a moment. With that in mind, using Ollama locally (see the chapter on Local LLMs), you can then use that for all your local development and save some money!

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Marketing Assistant and Other Automations

This excerpt from the book "marketing_assistant.md" describes how to build an AI-powered marketing assistant using Laravel, an open-source PHP framework, and n8n.io, an automation tool for connecting services. The book focuses on concepts rather than code, and the author uses the example of a marketing campaign for a new book to illustrate the process. The system relies on prompts and scheduling features to automate tasks, generate responses, and collect feedback, all while providing a chat interface for user interaction. This system can be used for various tasks like scheduling, email management, and even gathering data from sources like LinkedIn Ads, Amazon Reviews, and Medium traffic.

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Scraping the web for data can feel like wrestling with a tangled mess of HTML. But what if you could skip the wrestling match and have a powerful AI assistant do the heavy lifting for you?
On today's episode, we're exploring how Large Language Models are transforming the web scraping game.

We'll unpack how LLMs, combined with cleverly designed tools, can intelligently extract and structure data from websites, all without you needing to become an HTML parsing expert. **

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Tools Overview Enhancing LLM Capabilities - Chapter 7

This is one of the most critical chapters in the book. If you understand the concept of tools and tool chaining, you will see significant changes in how you build applications. It is almost like "Event Driven Design" but "Tool Driven Design" (TDD 🤔).

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Why LLMs - Chapter 2

Eight years ago, I did a Machine Learning and PHP video on YouTube, and it is still my most popular video. Back then, AWS made a service that started to make "Machine Learning" easy to host and create APIs around. For some reason, the potential to use this API to parse sentiment or tag content got my attention. But quickly, it faded because I still needed to know Machine Learning. I still needed to train models to do specific tasks.

But then, as we all know, OpenAI released an API that we could use like any API and get results. No training unless I wanted to and no Machine Learning expertise —- just read the docs and throw your prompt at it. It was then that I realized that this could make my work more accessible and allow me to create things for myself and customers I could not even imagine doing before.

About two years ago, I heard about LangChain, a Python framework that enabled developers to build LLM-centric workflows and automation. It honestly got me worried.

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Prompting Overview - Chapter 5

Prompting is the key to unlocking the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in your PHP applications. It's the language we use to communicate with AI, enabling our code to leverage advanced natural language processing for tasks ranging from content generation to complex data analysis. By mastering prompting, you'll be able to create more intelligent, flexible, and powerful PHP applications that can adapt to user needs and evolve with advancing AI capabilities.

About the book

This book is a practical guide for PHP developers navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs). Moving beyond the hype, it delves into real-world applications and solutions, providing step-by-step instructions on how to integrate LLMs into your existing projects.

From mastering prompts to building reusable tools and working with various LLMs, this book equips you with the skills needed to leverage the power of Ai in everyday development tasks.

Whether you’re looking to automate complex workflows, enhance content verification, or simply stay ahead in a changing industry, this book offers the insights and hands-on examples to get you there. This isn’t just another “Hello World” guide—it’s a deep dive into the future of PHP development, focusing on real solutions that drive real results.

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Prompting Overview - Chapter 5

Prompting is the key to unlocking the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in your PHP applications. It's the language we use to communicate with AI, enabling our code to leverage advanced natural language processing for tasks ranging from content generation to complex data analysis. By mastering prompting, you'll be able to create more intelligent, flexible, and powerful PHP applications that can adapt to user needs and evolve with advancing AI capabilities.

About the book

This book is a practical guide for PHP developers navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs). Moving beyond the hype, it delves into real-world applications and solutions, providing step-by-step instructions on how to integrate LLMs into your existing projects.

From mastering prompts to building reusable tools and working with various LLMs, this book equips you with the skills needed to leverage the power of Ai in everyday development tasks.

Whether you’re looking to automate complex workflows, enhance content verification, or simply stay ahead in a changing industry, this book offers the insights and hands-on examples to get you there. This isn’t just another “Hello World” guide—it’s a deep dive into the future of PHP development, focusing on real solutions that drive real results.

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While I may get paid to code, my ultimate goal is to build the right features. And this is rarely if ever exactly what the Product owner expected.

Read more https://alnutile.medium.com/a-developer-must-help-their-client-learn-to-be-a-product-owner-e178435899d1

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Whether you are working Waterfall, or Agile we still need to quote out the time it will take for new features . We still need to give the product owners, or the people with the money, a sense of timing. And it is this skill or lack thereof that drives the experience we are going to have when we code.

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Author: Jan Molak

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Original Source: http://johnfergusonsmart.com/five-stages-bdd-agile-adoption/

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Read By: Jack Fruh

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Recently the Zaengle team was asked to look over an existing Laravel application and give a review of the overall state of the code. We were to act as an independent third party, between a new studio who had inherited the codebase, and the client, who was anticipating launching the product.

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Read By: Ryan MacAllan

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Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don’t need, though, is someone who’s just going to be The Idea Guy.

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Read By: Alfred Nutile

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Sometime in 2014, PHP-land started to debate whether Active Record was a tolerable ORM pattern, and whether one should use Active Record or Data Mapper ORMs. In PHP, this comes down to something like Laravel’s Eloquent ORM as an Active Record implementation vs. Doctrine, the reigning mainstream (and probably only) PHP data mapper implementation. After a surge of interest in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Hexagonal Architecture in the Laravel, and overall PHP communities, people began to detest one of the very things that drew them to the framework in the first place. This was fueled by a number of vocal and notable Laravel community members learning Doctine, talking about it heavily, and some evangelizing it. With outside influence from the PHP world providing the same judgement against the impure Active Record pattern, the pitchforks started to come out from all over.

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We are working on using FeatureFlags or Toggles in our applications. For one we are aiming to do all our work on mainline branch at all times so this would be a key coding discipline to use FeatureFlags so we can hide a feature in progress knowing it will not interfere with the application. For example if a hotfix or another feature is ready to go to production we can push that with no worries of the in progress feature.

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Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell

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If you type git pull and expect a fast-forward update, but get a merge instead, don't panic! This usually happens when we're collaborating on a branch with other people, and we've made changes on our local version of a branch, and someone else (or the other you, if you use git to sync between multiple dev platforms) has made changes to the remote version of a branch in the meantime. It also happens really frequently in teams where all commits are to the master branch ... yet another reason to have a decent branching strategy.

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Recent additions to the joind.in API have introduced some new dependencies so we decided we'd start using Composer to manage these - but we don't want to run composer unsupervised. I'm sure this will bring the rain of "just run composer install, it's probably mostly almost safe" criticism, but actually it's quite tricky to run Composer without excluding vendor/ from source control so I thought I'd share how we did it so that anyone who wants to do so can learn from my experience!

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Read By: Alfred Nutile

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It didn't start out like that. When I first discovered TDD, it was like a courteous invitation to a better world of writing software. A mind hack to get you going with the practice of testing where no testing had happened before. It opened my eyes to the tranquility of a well-tested code base, and the bliss of confidence it grants those making changes to software.

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Read By: Alfred Nutile

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BETA: This is a Code Heavy Read :)

Not all apps need to be an SPA (Single Page Application). Sure they have their place but in most cases the task might benefit from just a Blade template and Angular widget. This saves you from having to write an angular route which can be a tedious duplication of work. Also Blade is fast and fun to work with.

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The following is a story about how we matured as an engineering team. We went from an ad-hoc process to Scrum, and used Scrum for a whole year. Scrum leveled us up as a team in terms of structure and process. But it caused major morale issues. Then we found Kanban. We implemented it and have never looked back.

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Read By: Alfred Nutile

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This will cover two things. One, how helpful it can be to make a clickable Proof of Concepts (POC), not just with images, or tools the spit out html but instead just enough javascript and base theme to help "sell" the idea, or more importantly to help Product Owners see the possibilities that are not too far out of reach. And the second, and maybe more important thing I will cover is that the developer has a lot to gain in taking on this seemingly non-coding path.

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Read By: Alfred Nutile

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"For the last year I have been experimenting with the new approach to a Behaviour-Driven Development, which could be summarised as "Ubiquitous Language is a thing again". The core premise of this approach is that if you take Ubiquitous Language seriously and push for it in your scenarios, you open the door to doing a Domain-Driven Design while you're doing Behaviour-Driven Development's red-green-refactor cycle. By embedding Ubiquitous Language in your scenarios, your scenarios naturally become your domain model, which you can use to develop the most important part of your application - a core domain."

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Read By: Alfred Nutile

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Read By: Alfred Nutile

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First let me define what a “Side Project” is. In this case a “Side Project” is something you are not being paid for and something that you have complete control over....

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