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What I Actually Build — AI Engineering, RAG Systems, Agents & Full-Stack

A first-person overview of production AI engineering work spanning RAG systems, agent architectures, full-stack Laravel/Next.js delivery, and cost optimization — built for real traffic, not tutorials.

May 24, 2026Read

What I Actually Build: AI Systems That Ship, Not Demos That Impress

Web Development

#Laravel#Next.js#RAG+5

What I Actually Build: AI Systems That Ship, Not Demos That Impress

I build AI systems that run in production — RAG pipelines, guardrailed agents, full-stack platforms. Not prototypes. Not demos. Systems that ship.

May 22, 2026Read

A Production-Ready Laravel Next.js Architecture Blueprint

AI & Web Development Insights

#Laravel#Next.js#Cache Invalidation+4

A Production-Ready Laravel Next.js Architecture Blueprint

Discover a battle-tested Laravel Next.js architecture blueprint designed to solve cache invalidation and authentication challenges in production environments.

January 5, 2026Read

The "Cache Handshake": How Laravel Events Control Next.js 16 ISR

Web Development

#Laravel#Next.js#ISR+7

The "Cache Handshake": How Laravel Events Control Next.js 16 ISR

Discover the 'Cache Handshake Protocol,' a robust solution for Laravel and Next.js ISR cache invalidation, ensuring reliability and observability.

December 22, 2025Read

How I Built an AI Agent for my Portfolio (Yabasha.dev) using Laravel & Next.js

AI & Web Development Insights

#laravel#php#api+6

How I Built an AI Agent for my Portfolio (Yabasha.dev) using Laravel & Next.js

I built a Senior Editor agent into my portfolio stack to handle metadata, SEO, and publishing. Here is the architecture, the model benchmarking, and the real cost per post after six months in production.

December 19, 2025Read

The CRUD Era is Dead: Why Pure Full-Stack Developers Are Becoming Obsolete

AI & Web Development Insights

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#AIEngineering#FullStackDevelopment#Nextjs+9

The CRUD Era is Dead: Why Pure Full-Stack Developers Are Becoming Obsolete

After 20 years building web apps, I'm calling it: the CRUD era is over. Users don't want digital filing cabinets anymore—they want applications that understand, generate, and anticipate. Here's what the new AI full-stack skill set looks like, with real Laravel code.

December 10, 2025Read

Laravel

#laravel#api#rest+3

Stop Building Fragile APIs: A Laravel Engineering Blueprint

A battle-tested guide to building production-ready APIs with Laravel, drawn from 20+ years in banking and fintech. Covers resource transformations, rate limiting, cursor pagination, Sanctum auth, versioning, Pest testing, and performance optimization—with real code and zero fluff.

December 7, 2025Read

PHPUnit is Dead to Me: Why I Only Test with Pest

Laravel

#laravel#php#pest+2

PHPUnit is Dead to Me: Why I Only Test with Pest

After twenty years of PHPUnit boilerplate, I switched to Pest and never looked back. Here's why the cleaner syntax, dataset testing, higher-order expectations, and architecture tests make it the only testing tool I use for Laravel.

December 2, 2025Read

Laravel

#laravel#docker#devops+2

Stop Polluting Your Mac: Why I Only Use Docker for Laravel

Local development environments are fragile sandcastles. Homebrew, XAMPP, and Valet are local state pollution. It's time to pave over them with concrete using Docker.

November 28, 2025Read

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