When you need something in Laravel, do you install a package, ask your coding agent to pick one, or just build it yourself?
Curious how devs are making that call these days.
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Rule of thumb:
If it's a battle-tested problem (auth, payments, permissions) → Spatie / first-party package.
If it's domain logic or a tiny utility → ask Cursor/Claude to generate it so I avoid bloated dependencies.
"Just enough code to own, not enough to maintain someone else’s…