Laravel developer · building Artisan Studio (Beta opens 16th Nov)
I have been developing for over twenty years, mostly with Laravel and APIs, as a senior full-stack developer and CTO across different companies. For most of that time I turned other people's ideas into working software, which was rewarding, but never as much as building something for myself.
Artisan Studio is my own idea, and it has been a long time in the making. For the last couple of years I worked on it in my spare time, which meant very little progress. In the last six months I have been able to give it serious time. Like most ideas, it kept growing: I came up with new features and started again over and over 😂 and that is what made it real. The frustrations I hit working with AI tools led to huge improvements in the project too.
AI is changing how developers work, and I would rather embrace it and build with it than wait to see how it affects my own career. It is also time I built something I can be proud of. Artisan Studio is my chance to work on it full time and finally provide a better future for my family.
It is certainly not my first venture. Admittedly, some of my ideas did not work out, and a few never even reached a release. I learned more from those than from the ones that did. Sometimes you just have to fail to succeed. 🫠
Artisan Studio is an AI interactive platform & CLI for Laravel developers.
SAMI collaborates with you. Her name stands for Smart Artisan Memory Intelligence.
- 🔍 Scan: runs static analysis, security audits and convention checks across the whole project and groups what she finds by cause.
- 🛠️ Fix: fixes what has a safe, known answer, one group at a time, and asks you when it needs a judgment call.
- 🧱 Build: takes an idea and builds it step by step on its own branch, with a prototype you can see first.
- 📄 Insights: a report on your project, with a starting point ordered by where your time pays off most.
- 🏙️ The map: every file is a building, and its height is its open findings, so you can see where the problems are and watch them come down as SAMI fixes them.
My goal is simple: make development more enjoyable and interactive. That is why I created SAMI, and over time I want the platform to support developers earning from this too.
⚙️ Studio CLI brings SAMI into your terminal, including the one in your IDE. Follow every scan, fix and build as it happens, build with SAMI, and use your own AI. Under the hood it runs PHPStan, Pint, Rector and more, and applies the edits she sends back.
👉 https://github.com/artisan-studio-launchpad/studio-cli
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