A veteran software engineer argues that AI has sharpened the distinction between true engineers who understand computer systems and tool operators who only know specific frameworks. The author warns t…
A developer built five custom automation solutions for small and medium businesses, costing between EUR 500 and EUR 5,000. The projects included price scraping for an auto parts e-commerce site, autom…
A developer outlines practical workflows for using AI agents in Laravel and Symfony projects, emphasizing analysis over code generation. The agent should first map backend flows, identify entry points…
VibePHP, a satirical PHP runtime that uses AI to simulate code execution without actually running it, was announced. The runtime invents database results, system calls, and other data on the fly, trad…
A developer building the NENE2 PHP framework argues that Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools should call application boundaries, not production databases directly. The framework enforces this by mappin…
A developer's comparison of Python and PHP in 2026 concludes that Python is the better choice for beginners and those interested in AI/ML, while PHP remains strong for WordPress, client sites, and Lar…
A developer built Niriv, a custom WordPress-powered internet portal featuring search engine capabilities, news aggregation, business directories, and community features. The project was accelerated us…
A developer debugging a production-only 500 error on their blog discovered that GitHub Copilot had introduced infinite recursion in a Markdown library. The bug only manifested on the production server…
Neuron AI released an LLM classifier package for PHP that routes prompts to the appropriate model based on difficulty. The package trains offline on user-specific models and runs in microseconds with …
Jolidon HOUNGUE, a web developer from Benin, has joined DEV.to to share projects and connect with the tech community. He works with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Laravel, SQL, Linux, and Git, and is cur…
A developer with 12+ years of Magento experience built a RAG-powered code review tool that understands project-specific patterns, not just generic advice. The tool indexes a codebase using tree-sitter…
Sebastian De Deyne argues that lower-level languages like Go are becoming more viable as AI tools handle the complexity of writing code, reducing the pain of their "crudeness." The developer, who rece…
Endoflife.ai has added an "Add to Calendar" button to every product and version page with a future end-of-life date, allowing users to download a standard calendar file with reminders set at 90, 30, a…
A PHP developer argues that PHP is superior to Python for integrating AI into web applications, particularly for e-commerce platforms like PrestaShop. The developer contends that while Python excels a…
A developer built Sharebox, a self-hosted file-sharing tool, using AI pair programming with PHP 8.1, SQLite in WAL mode, and zero external dependencies. The project solved three key technical challeng…
The author describes their transition from building custom WordPress websites (involving PHP, custom post types, and REST API endpoints) to developing with Node.js, React, and Vue.js. They explain tha…
Prisma is a lightweight, MIT-licensed PHP package (version 0.4) that provides a unified API for integrating over 25 AI providers across text, image, audio, and video domains, eliminating the need for …
Based on the article, the author reflects on five years of experience coding in PHP and highlights two major oddities in the language: its array system and type system. PHP's "arrays" are actually ord…
A developer hired to port a legacy PHP application to Rails using Anthropic's Claude Code tool encountered frequent service outages, session management issues, and unintended code generation that igno…
A security researcher has discovered and exploited a 21-year-old use-after-free vulnerability in PHP's `unserialize()` function, affecting code paths that have been vulnerable since PHP 5.1 shipped in…