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Laravel, thinking fast.

A free book on building AI features in Laravel that survive real users — features that cost what you expected and fail in ways you planned for. Read it here, or take the PDF with you.

Julian Beaujardin

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Laravel, thinking fast. — Julian Beaujardin

Contents

Preface

  1. 01 Preface
  2. 02 How This Book Is Structured
  3. 03 What Happens When You Ignore Them

Chapter 1

Your First AI Endpoint

  1. 01 Your First AI Endpoint
  2. 02 One Driver, All The Provider's Weirdness
  3. 03 Fail Loudly on a Missing Credential
  4. 04 Reaching It From the Application

Chapter 2

Getting an Answer You Can Use

  1. 01 Getting an Answer You Can Use
  2. 02 Decode or Throw, at the Boundary
  3. 03 Required Paths Are a Contract — Keep Them Small
  4. 04 Keep the Prompt and the Validator in One Room

Chapter 3

Prompts Are Code

  1. 01 Prompts Are Code
  2. 02 Separate the Copy From the Assembly
  3. 03 Write Rules a Model Can Actually Follow
  4. 04 The Prompts You Did Not Write

Chapter 4

What a Token Costs You

  1. 01 What a Token Costs You
  2. 02 The Cap That Truncates Thinking Too
  3. 03 Key the Ceiling to the Thing That Pays
  4. 04 Prove the Cache Is Actually Working

Chapter 5

Never Let the Browser Talk to the Model

  1. 01 Never Let the Browser Talk to the Model
  2. 02 Put the Boundary Where the Facts Are
  3. 03 The Browser Sends Data, Never Instructions

Chapter 6

Slow Is the Default

  1. 01 Slow Is the Default
  2. 02 Three Timeouts, and Their Order Matters
  3. 03 Checkpoint, Then Recover
  4. 04 Telling the User What Is Happening

Chapter 7

Tools — Giving the Model Hands

  1. 01 Tools — Giving the Model Hands
  2. 02 Type the Input, Then Validate It Anyway
  3. 03 Shape the Payload at the Boundary
  4. 04 Order the Toolset

Chapter 8

The Agent Loop

  1. 01 The Agent Loop
  2. 02 Truncation Must Not Render as an Answer

Chapter 9

Tool Results Are Not Answers

  1. 01 Tool Results Are Not Answers
  2. 02 One Card That Updates, Not Five That Stack

Chapter 10

Side Effects You Cannot Take Back

  1. 01 Side Effects You Cannot Take Back
  2. 02 Single-Use Tokens Must Survive a Rejection
  3. 03 Only Commit When It Is Real

Chapter 11

The Model Is an Untrusted Caller

  1. 01 The Model Is an Untrusted Caller
  2. 02 Do Not Build an Oracle
  3. 03 Assume a Leaked Identifier

Chapter 12

Testing Something That Never Answers Twice

  1. 01 Testing Something That Never Answers Twice
  2. 02 Test the Compensations, Not the Happy Path

Chapter 13

When the Model Is Wrong

  1. 01 When the Model Is Wrong
  2. 02 Ties Go to the Provider, and No Match Changes Nothing

Chapter 14

Observability for Things You Cannot Reproduce

  1. 01 Observability for Things You Cannot Reproduce
  2. 02 Measure the Hop You Are About to Argue About

Chapter 15

Failure Is a Feature

  1. 01 Failure Is a Feature
  2. 02 Refuse to Start Work You Cannot Finish

Chapter 16

Long Content

  1. 01 Long Content
  2. 02 Prompt With Names, Not Codes

Chapter 17

Where the AI Belongs

  1. 01 Where the AI Belongs

Chapter 18

Shipping It

  1. 01 Shipping It

Afterword

Knowing the Good

  1. 01 Knowing the Good
  2. 02 The Part I Am Not Going to Pretend About

Appendices

  1. 01 Appendix A: Pre-Launch Checklist