Week ending January 2, 2026
It's Friday and it's the first top ten of 2026! Obviously it feels like its been a bit of a quieter week as I hope everyone is off enjoying themselves but I've managed to put together 10 great posts for you to read.
we have Andy Brudtkuhl with "Compound Engineering for Laravel" - In this post Andy talks about a more structured approach with letting AI Write Laravel code for you. The basic idea of this is every feature you build should make the next one easier. So you accumulate knowledge that AI Agents can re-use. If you’re already using AI agents in your coding workflow this is worth a read to see if some of this thinking can help the AI Agents improve -
we have Povilas Korop with his latest series over on his AI Coding Daily Youtube channel. Povilas works through building a real world Laravel project from Upwork using AI tools. If you’re just starting to dip your toes into Using AI in your development cycle or if you’re already using it there are still things to learn through this series. He walks through how he uses AI to plan and build the project, how he uses tools like Laravel Boost and other tools to build out the project - 📽️ -
we have Michael Snegurski With "Building Fully Type-Safe APIs With Laravel", he walks us through creating a fully type safe API with the help of Spaties Laravel Data package and their Typescript Trasnformer package. It has plenty of examples of how he works with his React Typescript frontend and hooks into his Type Safe API -