A client asked me a familiar question this year: “We are rebuilding our dashboard on Laravel. Livewire or Inertia?” His team was three strong PHP engineers and one designer who could write a little Vue. He had read a dozen hot takes and came away more confused than when he started. That confusion is common,…
Month: September 2026
Laravel + AI in 2026: How to Build Smart Web Apps Using the Laravel AI SDK
A year ago, “add AI to our Laravel app” was a bigger sentence than it sounded. Your team picked a provider, wrote a custom HTTP wrapper, hand-rolled retry logic, bolted on a queue, and hoped the vendor’s API shape never changed. Then a better model arrived from a different provider, and you did most of…
Software Development Rate Card 2026: What Companies Are Actually Paying
A founder called me in a mild panic last quarter. He had three quotes for the same build on his desk: $28 an hour, $65 an hour, and $140 an hour. Same scope, same stack, wildly different numbers. “Who’s ripping me off?” he asked. Nobody was. He was looking at three different markets, three different…
