AI-driven Laravel development, led by senior engineers

What AI-driven development means at Larasoft

AI-driven development means AI coding agents write much of the code, while experienced engineers decide what gets built, how it fits together and whether it is good enough to ship. The agents bring speed. The engineers bring judgement, context and accountability.

This is different from vibe coding. In vibe coding, people accept whatever the AI produces because it seems to work. In AI-driven development, AI output is a draft that has to pass the same tests, checks and reviews as code written by a person.

Why it needs senior engineers

AI agents are good at producing plausible code quickly. Left alone, they also tend to:

• solve the same problem in a different way each time, so the codebase drifts;
• skip the unglamorous parts, such as authorisation, validation, transactions and error handling;
• add packages nobody asked for;
• write tests that confirm what the code does rather than what it should do.

Each of these is easy to catch when someone experienced is reading the pull request, and expensive to fix six months later. That is why every change we ship is reviewed by a senior Laravel engineer who understands your system.

How we set the guardrails

Before agents write any feature code, we put the structure in place that keeps them on track:

1. Architecture and conventions. Where business logic lives, how data is accessed and which Laravel features we use, written down in an AI rulebook that agents read on every task.
2. Project context. Laravel Boost and project documentation give agents accurate knowledge of your Laravel version, packages and database, which cuts down on invented methods and outdated patterns.
3. Tests first. Acceptance criteria become tests, so an agent's work is measured against what you asked for.
4. Automated checks. Static analysis, code style, dependency audits and the test suite run on every pull request.
5. Human review. A senior engineer reviews, adjusts and merges. Agents never deploy to production.

What you can build this way

Anything you would build with Laravel: SaaS products, MVPs, customer portals, internal tools, admin panels and APIs. It works especially well for:

• New features on existing Laravel apps, where the codebase gives agents clear patterns to follow.
• Migrations and refactors, such as legacy PHP to Laravel or version upgrades, where much of the work is repetitive but needs care.
• AI features, such as assistants, search and document processing, using the Laravel AI SDK.

Already have AI-written code?

If your team or a previous supplier has already built something with AI tools and you are not sure how solid it is, start with a vibe code review. It gives you a ranked list of problems and a clear view of whether to fix, refactor or rebuild.