Learn to Build,Not Just Prompt
LLMs, agents, skills, MCP, workflows... this new AI landscape is vast. But we gotcha. Consider this your AI field guide.
Featured Series
01So You Want to Build an Agent
You're likely using an AI agent every day at this point, but do you truly understand how it works under the hood? What separates an agent from a general chat? What's a tool? How do we provide the loop for executing these tools? In this series, we'll demystify some of these concepts by building a basic agent that is capable of interacting with your file system and triggering tools.
Jeffrey Way·7 eps·1h 26m
02The Batteries-Included AI Toolkit
The Laravel AI SDK is a first-party toolkit for adding AI features to your applications. Using a helpdesk app as our playground, you’ll learn structured output, chat with memory, streaming, tool use, retrieval, and everything else you need to build AI features that are reliable, testable, and ready for production. This is an incredibly powerful toolkit, and I can't wait to show you what you can build. Let's get going!
Jeremy McPeak·13 eps·3h 10m
03Watch Me AI the UI
In this workshop, come along as I upgrade the visual design of our Laracasts team dashboard. As you'll see, design work can sometimes be a bit tricky to orchestrate. Can AI properly evaluate a screenshot and convert it to CSS? Well, yes...and no! But luckily, we have a variety of techniques we can use to increase our odds of success. Let's go!
Jeffrey Way·5 eps·47m
04AI Developer Workflows
It's a brand new world. Suddenly, we find ourselves less writing code line by line, and more writing plans, coordinating agents, and building workflows. There's a lot to learn. But we gotcha!In this series, each episode will demonstrate one potential AI workflow that you might adopt in your own projects. Check back often, as we'll be adding new episodes every month.
Jeffrey Way·3 eps·47mFoundations
Before you go deep, get the lay of the land. Understand how LLMs work, and then learn the prompting and context skills that you'll be reaching for every day going forward.
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Resources & Tools
Prompting Best Practices
Anthropic's official guide to writing effective prompts.
Claude Code CLI
An agentic coding tool that builds like a human.
AI Model Comparison
Independent benchmarks and comparisons of major AI models.
Jetbrains AI
Harness the power of AI directly within your IDE.
Codex App
A powerful Mac UI for working with Codex.
Cursor
A powerful AI-first code editor.
Deep-Dive Into LLMs
A comprehensive review of how LLMs are constructed.
Guidelines
Guidelines are the bridge between how you want code written and what AI actually produces. This is a key component toward ensuring that the AI generates code that is consistent with your preferred style and approach.
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Resources & Tools
Write an Effective Guidelines File
Learn how the Anthropic team recommends you prepare your CLAUDE.md file.
Guideline "Rules"
You can optionally organize your guidelines into a set of "rule" Markdown files.
Laravel Boost
Laravel Boost can help build your guidelines file.
Skills
Skills are packaged instructions that teach AI coding tools how to handle specific tasks, from scaffolding components to running deployments. Write them once, share them across projects, and turn repetitive workflows into one-command operations.
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Workflow
AI agents go far beyond simple autocomplete. They can write plans, execute tasks, run tests, fix errors, and ore. Finding a comfortable workflow will be essential to your career going forward.
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The Craft
AI can certainly amplify your output, but it doesn't replace the need to understand the building blocks of application development. Testing, debugging, performance tuning, deployment: these are essential skills.
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Building with AI
Using AI as a development tool is one side of the coin. The other is building AI-powered features directly into your applications: chatbots, content generation, search, recommendations. Laravel's ecosystem makes this surprisingly approachable.
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