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Laravel's Bug Tracker Just Disappeared. Here's What That Means for Your App.
Taylor Otwell turned off GitHub Issues on most Laravel packages. It's a bigger deal for the businesses running on those packages than for the developers filing PRs.
Your AI Assistant Gets Worse the More Tools You Give It. Here's Why.
MCP's new roadmap names tool bloat as an official problem. Here's what it means if your business keeps stacking AI integrations.
Laravel 13.22 Adds a Small Attribute With a Big Payoff for Complex Apps
Laravel 13.22's BindWhen attribute makes conditional dependencies easier to read, test, and change as a business application grows.
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