This week, Symfony published Symfony UX 3.3, which adds support for Symfony Reprise and includes several improvements to the toolkit. In addition, SymfonyCasts announced a new course on upgrading to Symfony 8. Finally, the upcoming SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026…
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes from anonymous sources. In one extreme case, I have seen an executive confess that they had never even used ChatGPT or any AI tool in their life, immediately after producing a technical strategy for an organisation with $2B+ in revenue which was entirely centered around AI. Here's a…
In Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner made the following claim: Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster on Linux but otherwise, barely anyone noticed. Boring is good. I decided to have a poke at my own Claude Code installation to see if I could find evidence that it was using Bun written in Rust. I found these two commands convincing: strings ~/.local/bin/claude | grep -m1 'Bun v1' For me this outputs Bun v1.4.0 (macOS arm64). The…
Tool: SQLite Query Explainer Julia Evan's, in Learning a few things about running SQLite: Maybe one day I’ll learn to read a query plan. Big same.... which inspired me to have Fable build this interactive explain tool, which runs SQLite in Python in Pyodide in Web Assembly in the browser and adds a layer of explanation to the results of both EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN. Approach with caution, since I don't know enough about SQLite query plans to verify the results myself, but it seems…
Claude make Fable 5 permanent An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. As I was saying last week, the competition from GPT-5.6 Sol (and maybe to a lesser extent Kimi 3) made untenable Anthropic's plan to remove Fable 5 from their subscription accounts and make…
nascheme/quixote A certain vintage if Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was six hours ago. The oldest commit in that repo is from 21 years ago, and that was the initial import of Quixote 2.4 from Subversion into Git. Tags: computer-history, python, web-frameworks
Video version https://youtu.be/pxnY6T98G14 You may not realize it, but most developers today sit at their keyboards running a manual while loop without realizing it. You write a prompt, read the response, decide what to ask next, and repeat, over and over again. All day long, you are the thing that keeps the process moving toward […] The post Introduction to Loop Engineering: Building AI Agents That Run Themselves appeared first on PHP Architect.
If you’ve been using Claude Code as a single monolithic assistant, you’ve only been using half the tool. Subagents — specialized AI assistants that Claude Code can spin up and delegate tasks to — fundamentally change how you work. Instead of context-switching between “write this Pest test,” “optimize that MySQL query,” and “review this Rector […] The post Claude Code Subagents: Delegate Like a Senior PHP Developer appeared first on PHP Architect.
Is there something I can actually help you with today? — Kimi K3, after refusing to leak its system prompt Tags: kimi, ai-personality, generative-ai, ai, llms
A practical conference session on building PHP extensions with Go and FrankenPHP, then wiring them into Laravel and Symfony as native-feeling features. It uses an in-memory LRU cache as the example and offers a nice tour of framework flexibility and PHP internals. Read more
Tool: LLM cliché highlighter I got frustrated reading yet another article that was crammed with the clichés of LLM-generated writing - "no fluff, no filler, no jargon" type stuff - so I had Fable 5 vibe code up this app for highlighting ten common patterns that show up in that sort of writing. Tags: tools, ai, generative-ai, llms
The White House has launched a central clearinghouse to triage AI-discovered vulnerabilities and coordinate patches, but it has revealed little about how the system will operate. Its new Gold Eagle initiative aims to collect findings from government and industry, coordinate which software gets scanned, validate reported vulnerabilities, and prioritize patches across federal systems, critical infrastructure, and open source software. The administration publicly announced Gold Eagle on July 14,…
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 16, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon, and Holly Schilling Joe hosts with Sarah and Holly while running on no sleep. The PHP Tech 2027 CFP opens, a fake PHP 9 pitch appears, we crown Holly the accidental main character of internals, and everyone agrees dark mode flashing white […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.16 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use: Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to get the previous members into birdwatching - help them embrace a more sustainable hobby! Google used 10.9 billion gallons in 2025, so about 30 million gallons per day. The Coachella Valley has 120 golf courses each using ~800 acre-feet per year, which is ~750,000 gallons per day. So Google buying up 40 of…
Firefox in WebAssembly This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser. Here's my blog, running in Firefox, running in WebAssembly, running in Chrome: They chose Firefox/Gecko because it has strong single-process support. The project used an estimated $25,000 worth of Claude Opus and Fable tokens, but took advantage of a Claude Max subscription plan so cost much less in actual dollars. The demo funnels all traffic over a WebSocket…