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Thought You Were Productive Enough in Laravel? Try Laravel Boost
If you've ever used an AI agent in a Laravel project, you've probably experienced the "almost right" phenomenon. Your agent generates code that looks reasonable but skips writing tests, uses outdated features or ignores your project's conventions entire...
Alex Garrett-Smith •6d
AI Prompts for Every Development Workflow Step (With Copy/Paste Examples)Meta Description
Effective prompting is harder than it seems. You’re no longer expressing logical steps directly in code. Instead, you’re turning intent into a written instruction, which can take a lot of practice to become good at.In this post, I’m handing over some ea...
Alex Garrett-Smith •1w
From Skepticism to Buy-In: Helping Developers Adopt AI
There’s no question about the impact that AI is having on the software development industry. We’re way past the hype phase, and it’s clear that AI can make developers and teams more productive with the right approach.Skepticism still exists among develo...
Alex Garrett-Smith •13 March 26
Improving Your AI Agent, One Rule at a Time
tl;dr. Use an agent markdown file, review it regularly, don’t let it get out of control, and share it with your team.AI agents thrive on context. The simplest way to define this up-front is with an agent markdown file which feeds your agent with context...
Alex Garrett-Smith •27 February 26
From Google to AI: Debugging Errors with Context
A clear shift has happened from searching Google (which, let’s be honest, almost always led us to Stack Overflow) to debugging with AI. Provided you pass relevant context, AI can solve even the most complex issues in a fraction of the time.We’ll dive in...
Alex Garrett-Smith •19 February 26
Barebones AI Guide: Your First Steps for Faster Development
AI is moving at such a rapid pace that if you’ve not yet started to integrate it into your daily workflow, it’s difficult to know where to start. The good news is that there are plenty of small steps you can take to dramatically boost your productivity....
Alex Garrett-Smith •12 February 26
Top AI tools to look out for in 2026
AI tools for developers hit a turning point somewhere in 2025. What started as autocomplete on steroids evolved into systems that could read entire codebases, write tests, review pull requests, and occasionally make questionable architectural decisions....
Charles Allotey •4 February 26
The Case for Strategic Agents: Moving Beyond AI Autocomplete
Insights from my recent talk at AIDD Development DayAs developers, we've grown accustomed to AI tools that complete our code and suggest quick fixes. But what if we're thinking too small? During my recent presentation at AIDD Development Day, I made the...
Garrison Snelling •11 December 25
Throw Your IDE Away? Why CLI Coding Agents Are Changing Everything
The title sounds dramatic, I know. Throw your IDE away? Really?To be clear: I’m not literally telling you to uninstall VS Code and go live in a cave with Vim and a solar-powered ThinkPad. I still open my IDE sometimes. But I’ve also now shipped multiple...
Justin Schroeder •19 November 25
Course 1: The Future Proof Dev: An Intro to AI for Web Developers
You feel it. Change is in there air and it’s been hanging around for a while now but you can’t quite find your place in it. Yes, I’m talking about the impact of AI on the web development world.It’s a tool that’s changing how developers work every day. F...
Daniel Kelly •23 October 25