Tag: Productivity

Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI, recently published a thread that perfectly describes the moment we’re living in software development. According to him, we’re witnessing a genuine renaissance in software development, driven by AI tools that have improved exponentially since December.

The qualitative leap

The most striking part of Brockman’s thread is how they describe the internal change at OpenAI: engineers who previously used Codex for unit tests now see the tool writing practically all code and handling a large portion of operations and debugging. This isn’t an incremental improvement, it’s a paradigm shift.

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 I’m seeing day to day in our profession and in society in general.

Recently I read an article by Erik Johannes Husom titled “Outsourcing thinking” that, among other things, discusses the concept of “lump of cognition fallacy”. The idea is that, just as there’s an economic fallacy saying there’s a fixed amount of work to do, some believe there’s a fixed amount of thinking to do, and if machines think for us, we’ll just think about other things.

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 there’s one feature that has my special attention: the Skills system.

What is Laravel Boost?

For those who don’t know it, Laravel Boost is an AI tool that integrates with your Laravel projects to help you in daily development. With version 2.0 they’ve taken a major leap, introducing the Skills system that allows extending and customizing how AI works with your code.

After my previous article about agent-centric programming, I’ve been researching more advanced techniques for using Claude Code really productively. As a programmer with 30 years of experience, I’ve seen many promising tools that ultimately didn’t deliver on their promises. But Claude Code, when used correctly, is becoming a real game-changer.

Beyond the basics: The difference between playing and working seriously

One thing is using Claude Code for experiments or personal projects, and another very different thing is integrating it into a professional workflow. For serious projects, you need a different approach:

Throughout my career, I’ve seen many things change. I’ve gone from Borland to Visual Studio, from vi to Sublime Text, from Sublime to VS Code… And believe me, each change was a deliberate decision that cost me weeks of adaptation. But what’s happening now with AI tools is something completely different.

I’ve found myself using Copilot in the morning, trying Cursor in the afternoon, and checking out Claude Code before going to bed. And I’m not alone. Developers have gone from being faithful as dogs to our tools to being… well, promiscuous.

A necessary reflection on the “AI-Native Engineer”

I read Addyo’s article about the “AI-Native Software Engineer” and, as a Principal Backend Engineer who has seen technological promises come and go for years, I have quite sincere opinions about it. Not all are comfortable to hear.

I’ve seen enough “revolutions” to separate the wheat from the chaff. And there’s a lot of both here.

What’s really working (honestly)

1. AI as copilot, not as pilot

The article’s metaphor about treating AI as a “junior programmer available 24/7” is accurate. In my experience working with teams, I’ve seen developers use GitHub Copilot and Claude effectively to:

How many times have you started a Laravel project manually creating models, controllers, migrations, factories, form requests, and tests one by one? If you’re like most Laravel developers, you’ve probably wasted countless hours on these repetitive tasks that, while necessary, don’t add direct value to your application’s business logic.

Laravel Blueprint is completely changing this paradigm. This code generation tool, created by Jason McCreary (the same genius behind Laravel Shift), allows you to generate multiple Laravel components from a single, readable, and expressive YAML file. In this deep analysis, we’ll explore how Blueprint can transform your development workflow and why it’s gaining traction in the Laravel community.