Harris Raftopoulos

laravel-news.comDecide with Jev: Laravel AI That Answers with a ProbabilityDecide with Jev is a new mini course where we build an app that checks if a draft does what its brief asked for. It uses Jev, an AI model from TypeSafe that ans…

Jev has been all over my feed. So instead of arguing about it, I put it to work in a real Laravel app. Episode 1 of Decide with Jev is out. We ask Jev if a draft matches its brief. It answers with a number, not a paragraph, so PHP can decide what happens next.

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laravel-news.comDecide with Jev: Turn AI Answers into Decisions with PHP RulesJev can answer three questions about a draft, but the model should not decide what happens next. In episode 3 of Decide with Jev, we write a small PHP class tha…

Your AI check says the draft looks great. Should your app publish it? I don’t think the model should make that call. New video out 🫡

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laravel-news.comDecide with Jev: Three Questions in One Request with the Laravel AI SDKA single yes or no doesn't tell you much about a draft. In this episode of Decide with Jev, we ask Jev three questions in one request and get back a Boolean, a…

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Episode 2 of Decide with Jev is out. We ask Jev three questions about the same draft in one request: does it deliver the brief, what kind of text is it, and how clear are the steps? Each answer comes back in its own shape, from a simple yes or no to a score on a scale we define.

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So when something changes, you know which part changed. And the questions don't wait for each other. Jev answers them in parallel, and PHP puts the answers together afterwards.

🔥 Fuse for Laravel v0.11.0 is out! What happens to a job when Fuse's own cache has a bad minute? Until now, a cache error while Fuse checked the circuit counted against the job. With the recommended $maxExceptions = 3, three of them could fail it for good while Stripe was up the whole time.

github.comRelease v0.11.0 · harris21/laravel-fuseWhat's Changed A job keeps the outcome it actually had when Fuse can't record it. A cache error while counting a successful job used to fail it, so a queue with retries made the external call twic...

Now Fuse reports the error and releases the job, the same way it holds jobs while a circuit is open. Also in this release: a cache error after a successful job no longer fails it, which used to make a retry call the API twice.

And the status page says DATA UNAVAILABLE instead of freezing on old data. 13 fixes in total, worth the upgrade even if your cache never blinks. github.com/harris21/laravel-fuse/releases/tag/v0.11.0

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Why does that matter? You can't write an if statement around a paragraph. You can write one around a number. High means the draft is a good match. Low means it isn't. Anything in the middle goes to a person, and the editor always makes the final call.

I'm not saying Jev is smarter than a chat model. For this kind of job, it just gives the right shape of answer. In this first episode we install the Laravel AI SDK, connect it to Jev, and test it on four drafts, including one that tries to trick it. Next up: three questions in one request.

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laravel-news.comLaravel AI SDK 1.0 Adds Classification and Tool ApprovalsLaravel AI SDK 1.0 is out with Jev classification, Vercel Chat and AG-UI streaming, approvable tool calls, and per-step agent middleware.

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17 Sept

My talk on Advanced Circuit Breakers for Laravel from @laravellive.dk is now live! Go give it a watch! youtu.be/YvfWLyHy6k4

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24 Aug

🔥 Fuse for Laravel v0.10.0 is out! After my talk at Laravel Live Denmark, three different people asked me the same: when a half-open circuit runs its test job and it fails, does that job keep its place in the queue? It doesn't. release() sends it to the back, behind jobs that were queued after it.

The new OldestJobProbe strategy fixes this: the oldest held job becomes the probe and stays the probe until it succeeds, no matter how many workers you run. Also: three race fixes in the circuit breaker itself, found during that testing. Worth the upgrade even if you skip the new strategy.

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24 Aug

github.comRelease v0.10.0 · harris21/laravel-fuseWhat's Changed New opt-in OldestJobProbe recovery strategy. At Laravel Live Denmark I was asked where the test job goes when a half-open circuit probes: it goes to the back of the queue, and a fai...

21 Aug

Yesterday I gave my Advanced Circuit Breakers for Laravel talk here at @laravellive.dk and the response has been amazing! Thank you to everyone who found me to chat about Fuse for Laravel afterwards. Day 2 is underway, come say hi if we haven’t met yet!

laravel-news.comBuilding and Deploying a Laravel App With Claude Code on Zerops - Laravel NewsI built InvoiceHub, a full invoicing app with queued PDF generation, email delivery, and full-text search, using Claude Code inside a remote Zerops workspace. Two prompts stand up the whole stack, and the agent even provisions Meilisearch mid-build. No local dev tools involved.

24 July

New @laravelnews.com video is out! I built an invoicing app entirely inside a @zeropsio.bsky.social remote workspace, with Claude Code handling the infrastructure. Honestly the most fun I’ve had with a deploy pipeline in a while!

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: I Tricked My Own AI Into Leaking Everything - Laravel NewsFirst I socially engineer our own support agent into leaking its full system prompt and another customer's data. Then we lock it down with four layers of defense: a hardened prompt, a local LLM guard running on Ollama, tool-level authorization, and output filtering. The finale of Ship AI with Laravel.

8 July

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8 July

Episode 11 of Ship AI with Laravel is live, and it’s the finale! 11 episodes, from composer require to a secure, production-ready AI platform. Thanks for building along 👇

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: Test Your AI System with Zero API Calls - Laravel NewsWe've built agents, tools, a knowledge base, and streaming. Now how do you test it without hitting OpenAI on every run? In this episode we test the entire system with Pest and zero API calls using the SDK's faking system. Fast, deterministic, free.

30 June

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30 June

Episode 10 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! We've built agents, tools, a knowledge base, streaming, the whole thing. But how do you test code that calls an AI? This episode we test the entire system with Pest and zero API calls using the SDK's faking system. Come build with me 👇

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30 June

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: Failover, Queues, and Middleware for AI Agents - Laravel NewsYour AI platform works in development, but what happens when the provider goes down at 2am or traffic spikes? In this episode we add provider failover, queued background processing, and middleware for logging, rate limiting, and cost tracking. The infrastructure that keeps it running in production.

24 June

Episode 9 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! Everything works in dev, but what happens when OpenAI goes down at 2am? This episode we make it production ready. Come build with me 👇

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24 June

Episode 9 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! Everything works in dev, but what happens when OpenAI goes down at 2am? This episode we make it production ready. Come build with me 👇

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: Give Your AI Agent Live Web Search - Laravel NewsThe agent can answer from our knowledge base, but not about things that change by the minute like shipping delays. In this episode we add the WebSearch tool so the agent can pull live information from the web, with a locked-down allow list so it only hits domains we trust.

18 June

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18 June

Episode 8 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! This episode we add the WebSearch tool so it can pull live info straight from the web. Locked down to the domains we trust, of course. Come build with me 👇

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18 June

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laravel-news.comAegis for Laravel: Scaffolding and Validation Helpers for Value Objects - Laravel NewsA string isn't an email until something validates it. Aegis scaffolds the Value Object that fixes that, with validation, Eloquent casting, and a test stub, from one Artisan command.

28 May

Give it a spin (maybe a star ⭐️) and let me know what you think!

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github.comGitHub - harris21/laravel-aegis: Scaffolding and validation helpers for Laravel Value ObjectsScaffolding and validation helpers for Laravel Value Objects - harris21/laravel-aegis

28 May

Just announced Aegis for Laravel on stage at Laravel Live Japan 2026! 🇯🇵🛡️ Scaffolding and validation for Value Objects. Wrap your primitives, validate at the boundary, and let one Artisan command write the class, cast, and test. It's open source and it's live now! github.com/harris21/laravel-aegis

laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: Real-Time Streaming Chat UI with Livewire - Laravel NewsThe agent's been talking to us through JSON. In this episode we build a real-time chat widget with Livewire, Alpine, and server-sent events so responses stream in word by word as the agent generates them. Same agent, same tools, just live.

19 May

Episode 7 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! This episode we fix that with streaming. The SDK has a one-line change from prompt to stream, and suddenly the response appears word by word in a Livewire chat UI as the agent generates it. Comes together really nicely 👇

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: Search Entire PDFs with Zero Search Logic - Laravel NewsLast episode we built semantic search from scratch. This time we let the AI provider host the vector store and handle the search. Upload PDFs, full policy docs, or markdown files, and the agent queries them through the SDK's FileSearch tool with no search logic on our side.

6 May

Episode 6 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! Last episode we built semantic search from scratch. This time we let the AI provider host the vector store and we just plug into it with the FileSearch tool. Upload PDFs, full policy docs, anything you want. Come build with me 👇

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6 May

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: RAG with Embeddings and pgvector in Laravel 13 - Laravel NewsYour agent looks up orders and remembers conversations but invents policies when customers ask about returns or shipping. In this episode we build a searchable knowledge base with embeddings and pgvector so the answers come from real documentation.

27 Apr

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27 Apr

Trying a new edit style for this one, curious what you think 👀 Episode 5 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! The agent could look up orders and remember conversations but kept inventing policies when customers asked about returns or shipping. Now the answers come from actual documentation 👇

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: Stop Your AI Agent from Guessing - Laravel NewsYour support agent talks, classifies tickets, but when a customer asks "where's my order?" it makes something up. In this episode we give the agent tools that connect it to real application data. No more guessing.

8 Apr

Episode 3 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! The agent was making up answers when customers asked about their orders. Now it has tools that connect to the database and pull real data. Order lookups, customer history, actual records. No more guessing. Come build with me 👇

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: Smart Ticket Triage with Structured Output - Laravel NewsYour support agent can talk, but it responds in prose. You can't route a ticket or track sentiment from a paragraph. In this episode we build a TicketClassifier that returns structured JSON with category, priority, sentiment, and a summary. Clean data from messy customer messages.

1 Apr

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1 Apr

Episode 2 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! We build a TicketClassifier that turns messy customer messages into clean structured data. Category, priority, sentiment, summary. The agent reads the room now. Come build with me 👇

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1 Apr

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laravel-news.comShip AI with Laravel: Building Your First Agent with Laravel 13's AI SDK - Laravel NewsLaravel 13 ships with a first-party AI SDK. In the first episode of Ship AI with Laravel we install it, scaffold a support agent, and get it responding to customers in about 10 minutes. One agent class, a few attributes, and it talks back.

25 Mar

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25 Mar

Episode 1 of Ship AI with Laravel is live! From composer require to a working support agent in about 10 minutes. We install the SDK, scaffold the agent, write the support instructions, and watch it respond to real customer messages. Come build with me 👇

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3 Mar

Tokyo, here I come! Honestly can’t believe I get to speak at Laravel Live Japan 2026. From running meetups in Athens to taking the stage in Tokyo.. this one hits different. Such a great lineup to be part of and I’m so pumped to meet the Japanese Laravel community. See you all in May! laravellive.jp

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laravel-news.comStop Failing APIs from Killing Your Queue — Fuse for Laravel - Laravel NewsStripe goes down on a Friday night and your queue workers don't know it. Every job hangs, retries, and blocks everything else. In this video, I break a simulated Stripe endpoint on purpose and show how Fuse for Laravel, the circuit breaker package I presented at Laracon India, automatically protects your queue, delays failing jobs, and recovers when the API comes back.

25 Feb

What happens when Stripe goes down at 11 PM on a Friday? I built Fuse for Laravel to fix it, presented it at @laracon.in , and now here's the full breakdown.

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25 Feb

What happens when Stripe goes down at 11 PM on a Friday? I built Fuse for Laravel to fix it, presented it at @laracon.in , and now here's the full breakdown.

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Ludovic Guénet

22 Feb

Vos jobs Laravel qui fail en cascade à cause d'une API down ? 😤 Laravel Fuse (par @harrisrafto.eu) implémente le Circuit Breaker pattern pour stopper automatiquement l'exécution de vos jobs quand un service tiers est indisponible. Nouvelle vidéo 👇 youtu.be/-eTnYPBuQrg

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15 Feb

Laravel Fuse: Circuit Breakers for Your Queue (by @harrisrafto.eu) adds real circuit breakers to your queue jobs. Fail fast, avoid backlog hell, and monitor everything with a status page. medium.com/p/laravel-fu... Free link pinned in first comment #Laravel #php #Coding #Programming

medium.comLaravel Fuse: Circuit Breakers for Your QueueHey Laravel folks! Imagine this: your queue workers are happily chugging along, sending emails via SendGrid or charging customers through…

12 Feb

This year I'm going all in on becoming a better storyteller 📚 Picked up "Made to Stick" and "Storyworthy", two books that I know will level up both my content and my public speaking. Time to put in the work 🔥

luma.comLaravel Greece - Thessaloniki February 2026 · LumaAt this first event of 2026 in Thessaloniki—and the first in a series of meetups launching in the city—we will talk about “Prompting Security” and “SaaS…

12 Feb

Thessaloniki, we're back! 🇬🇷 Our second Laravel Greece meetup in the city is happening on February 19th and we've got two awesome talks lined up. Greg Kosmidis on SaaS Prototyping with Filament and Dimitris Chatzopoulos on Prompting Security. Come hang out with us! RSVP: luma.com/xcd6j3dn