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Benjamin Crozat

@benjamincrozat • 7,744 subscribers

Dad. Freelance Laravel developer. I used to blog to 100K devs/mo. Now, attention is all you need.

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Not relying on a LLM in your code editor? That doesn't make you smarter. All the opposite actually. You're actively refusing to increase your productivity and buy your time back for the sake of outdated habits. Because at the very least, a LLM helps you write tons of boilerplate/mundane code. If you don't want to pay, there are free alternatives to GitHub Copilot. You have no excuse. Don't be that grumpy developer who thinks being negative about trendy tech is cool.

Not relying on a LLM in your code editor? That doesn't make you smarter. All the opposite actually. You're actively refusing to increase your productivity and buy your time back for the sake of outdated habits. Because at the very least, a LLM helps you write tons of boilerplate/mundane code. If you don't want to pay, there are free alternatives to GitHub Copilot. You have no excuse. Don't be that grumpy developer who thinks being negative about trendy tech is cool.

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I'm trying to make a modern debug bar for Laravel. It's a super early concept, I have innovative ideas to try that will make the debug bar a true coding companion. I'd love to share more later if anyone is interested. For now, I'm just trying to improve the UI by reimplementing the basic features everyone, no matter their level, needs.

I'm trying to make a modern debug bar for Laravel. It's a super early concept, I have innovative ideas to try that will make the debug bar a true coding companion. I'd love to share more later if anyone is interested. For now, I'm just trying to improve the UI by reimplementing the basic features everyone, no matter their level, needs.

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I like my Laravel seeders fast. I use recycle() to dodge N+1 model creations. Another trick: when a model needs an image saved on disk, generating a unique one for each record is painfully slow. And honestly, images aren’t immediately essential. So I dispatch that work to a job. My local projects always run Horizon, so images get generated in the background while I keep coding. A local environment you can reset instantly with random data is a game-changer.

I like my Laravel seeders fast. I use recycle() to dodge N+1 model creations. Another trick: when a model needs an image saved on disk, generating a unique one for each record is painfully slow. And honestly, images aren’t immediately essential. So I dispatch that work to a job. My local projects always run Horizon, so images get generated in the background while I keep coding. A local environment you can reset instantly with random data is a game-changer.

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