5 AI features you can add to any Laravel app this weekend

Stop over-engineering AI features. The Laravel AI SDK lets you add content generation, sentiment analysis, image alt-text, auto-tagging, and a RAG chatbot to any app in one weekend.

Your daughter's photo is one app away from being fake-naked

AI "nudify" apps can turn any photo into a fake nude in seconds. As a dad with three daughters, I'm not waiting for schools to figure this out. Here's what I'm actually doing — and what I wish someone had told me six months ago.

The question we should stop asking our kids

And what to ask instead in a world where AI changes everything

The quiet data grab reshaping online recruitment

Indeed is changing the rules. Employers connecting their ATS must now share disposition data — information about what happens to candidates after they apply.

AI agents are hiring humans now. Yes, really.

Every day I direct AI agents. But this week I discovered a platform where AI agents hire humans. The roles are reversed.

I'm Living the AI Disruption Everyone's Warning About

Matt Shumer warns AI disruption is coming. I'm writing to confirm: it's not coming — it's here. And I've been living it for over a year.

Dotmap update: Quick Search, Postgres, and smarter skill ranking

A few updates on Dotmap since the last post.

Why your AI coding agent is burning tokens on browser automation

Browser automation with AI agents sounds magical until you see the bill. Every screenshot, every DOM snapshot, every page navigation — it all gets stuffed into the context window. Your tokens evaporate faster than you can say "take a screenshot."

Building Dotmap: shipping features nobody asked for

How a side project grew from "map with dots" to a full professional discovery platform.

I can't stop adding features to the app no one asked for

Last week I built Vocaboo — a vocabulary quiz app for my daughter. Six hours of vibe coding. Problem solved. Ship it.

Laravel finally has an official AI SDK. Here's why it matters.

Taylor Otwell just dropped something big: an official, first-party AI SDK for Laravel.

The app no one will ever use (except my daughter)

Last week, my daughter came home with a vocabulary list. Fifty English words. Test on Friday.