European Open Source AI Index: Measuring True AI Openness
Lately I’m seeing more and more AI models calling themselves “open source”. Llama, Mistral, Falcon… they all claim to be “open”. But are they really? How open are they actually? I …
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NativePHP for Mobile Is Now Free: Finally I Can Try It!
I confess I’ve been following NativePHP for Mobile since it was announced. The idea of being able to make native mobile applications with Laravel and only PHP seemed - and seems - a very good thing. But there was a …
Self-Improving Agents: When AI Starts Improving Itself
Recently, Addy Osmani published an article that gave me much to think about: “Self-Improving Coding Agents”. The idea is simple but powerful: agents that not only execute tasks, but improve their own …
Are We Outsourcing Our Thinking? Reflections on AI and Cognition
Lately I’ve been following a discussion that worries me quite a bit: to what extent are we delegating our thinking to AI. It’s not an abstract or philosophical question, it’s something very real …
Laravel Fuse: Circuit Breaker for Queue Jobs
Just announced at Laracon India 2026: Laravel Fuse. It’s a circuit breaker implemented as middleware for Laravel Queue jobs, and it solves a problem all of us working with external services have faced. The Problem …
When Claude Plans Your Route on Mars: NASA Uses AI for Perseverance
A few days ago I read news that left me thinking for a while. It’s not the first time I’ve heard about AI in space, but it is the first time I’ve read about Claude planning routes on Mars. And the best …
When Curiosity Meets Go: TinyEMU-Go and the Art of Porting an Emulator with AI
A few days ago I came across an article that literally left me with my mouth open. It’s about TinyEMU-Go: a RISC-V emulator written entirely in Go, ported from C using Claude. And the best part: you can run a …
MCPHero: The Bridge Between MCP and Traditional AI Libraries
Lately I’ve been closely following everything around the MCP protocol (Model Context Protocol), and recently I found a project that makes a lot of sense: MCPHero. The reality is that although MCP is taking off, …
When AI Disempowers Us: Worrying Patterns in Real Claude Usage
A few days ago Anthropic published a paper that gave me much to think about. It’s titled “Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage” and analyzes, for the first time at scale, how AI interactions …
Laravel Boost v2 and the New Skills: On My List to Try
A few days ago Laravel Boost v2.0 was launched, and as someone curious about everything surrounding the Laravel ecosystem, I couldn’t help spending quite a while reading about the new features. The truth is …
Five principles for using AI professionally (without going crazy)
A few days ago I read an article by Dominiek about the 5 principles for using AI professionally and found myself constantly nodding. After years of watching technologies arrive and evolve, AI gives me the same feelings I …
Local AI on Raspberry Pi 5 with Ollama: Your private AI server at home
A few months ago I came across something that really caught my attention: the possibility of having my own “ChatGPT” running at home, without sending data anywhere, using only a Raspberry Pi 5. Sounds too …