Level 3
Tried the AI Copilot on VS code when it came out. Didn’t like it. Saw some tutorial here about Laravel Boost and that peaked my interest to get back on Laravel coding.
Feb 25, 2026
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Probably it's supposed to be a blog post, but I find it well to place it here too.
So my first, real "wtf" moment after so many "wow"s regarding of capabilities of AI agents, and the development with them.
So long story short. Together with my teammate , we started working on a dashboard for our customers, with many things in plan from our PM, and superiors, but nothing was clearly defined in the beginning, rather as we moved forward new tasks arose. We used AI for development clearly, but in kind of Developer Driven mode, putting together our stuffs, using agents to help our process.
After 3 weeks, we came to present our first phase achievement. After presentation one of our colleagues, who is not particularly a tech-dev guy, mostly a project manager came up with his dashboard, which he put together totally with claude code, also in 3 weeks. Nobody knows about that. And we were amazed too, how much things he put in, with totally user friendly approach. Kind of like almost production ready dashboard, even added couple of special complex functionalities which were amazing. So the CEO was amazed too, that a non dev guy was able to put this together.
Yes, it's a bit buggy, and have couple of security issues. It combines couple of different languagess/frameworks (python, nextjs, go...), for me not so familiar ones. But the boss was amazed. And I had some really mixed feelings about it, mostly like my work is not good enough, not fast enough, although I did everything as I wanted. We spoke to him about our approach using AI for development, and for later issues, when real problems will arise, with scalability and fixing issues in general. But probably soon, that will be managed by ai too. But summa summarum we switched to this project, and will continue to develop it. IDK what will be the end of this project, and will it break in the future, but currently here we are.
I'm not waiting for help, or any guidance, only wanted to share my thoughts. Please feel free to share yours too.
Thanks all,
Val
Level 122
I have a customer, a smart guy, but a physician not a developer. I have had a project for him since Laravel 7. It uses Livewire and mysql. We worked on 5his site for over 6 years.
Recently he sent me a bunch of files and asked If I could add this huge new feature that he had 'built' using claude. Problem is, its nextjs, react, postgres and a whole bunch of libraries for authentication, subscriptions, analytics etc etc. Of course he did this in good faith, with no idea what he was asking. The files also contained information about how many hours I would need to deploy it!
Obviously the answer is no, but this has damaged our relationship, and Im not sure how to handle it. I could ask claude to convert it, but them I am missing all the project requirements. I don't know how it should behave to produce a quality output,
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