MergePHP: Vibe Coding Laravel with Claude & Devin

When I enter the matrix, I bring two friends. It ain't Neo & Morpheus, it's my two favorite developers Devin and Claude. After helping Devin setup our codebase on his machine, he's been fixing issues quickly when we tag him in Slack and jumps on feedback in his PRs. My other developer Claude isn't as independent but charges way less than Devin. Both need to be given well-defined tasks so they don't get too off track which I've been using GPT to help me with. I've been 10x developer all my life but with both Devin & Claude, I'm at 100x now. At this point my day consists of waking up, grabbing my coffee & sunglasses, sitting in the computer chair, and I start vibing. Wait, did I mention Devin and Claude are not actual developers, they are AI. This talk covers my modern workflow for developing features, tests, and documentation with AI using Claude Code and Devin AI - I cover best practices, ways to get the most out of AI to code depending on your budget.

Presented by Joshua Copeland
Joshua Copeland is CTO of Remote Dev Force and works with clients all over the world to build high quality systems. With over 15 years as a software architect and serial entrepreneur, Joshua has gained a good blend of start-up and enterprise experience. Developing PHP applications is a big part of his day-to-day work and keeps security first-in-mind. Joshua’s team of engineers regularly work on building features for mission critical projects, setting up and maintaining infrastructure with Terraform, building pipelines, Pen-testing, putting out fires, and much more. He has led the PHP Vegas Users Group for over 9 years and loves to give back by speaking at conferences and educating the community.

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