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Roundly for Laravel: a package registry for AI agents — Roundly Consulting

Open source

Roundly for Laravel: a package registry for AI agents

AI coding agents rebuild auth, payments and teams from scratch, or guess APIs that do not exist. Roundly for Laravel gives your agent one file listing our 50+ Laravel packages and one prompt: install, read the docs, then write code.

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We open-sourced 50+ Laravel packages — Roundly Consulting

Open source

We open-sourced 50+ Laravel packages

50+ free, MIT-licensed Laravel packages with more than 12,000 tests and full docs: over 400,000 lines of code your AI agent no longer has to write. Here is what is inside and how you can help keep it going.

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Open source in the age of agentic coding — Roundly Consulting

Open source

Open source in the age of agentic coding

Open source is the substrate the whole industry now runs on — and the quiet engine behind reliable AI coding. Here is why it matters more than ever, and a heads-up about what we are preparing.

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AI is not just chat: background agents and MCP — Roundly Consulting

AI

AI is not just chat: background agents and MCP

Most people picture AI as a chat window waiting for questions. The valuable deployments run in the background — on schedules, on triggers, operating real systems.

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How AI is changing industries and where the hours go — Roundly Consulting

AI

How AI is changing industries and where the hours go

Across very different industries, AI is automating the same four activities. Here is the pattern, sector by sector — and why smaller companies gain the most.

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Vibe coding vs senior developers: what survives production — Roundly Consulting

Engineering

Vibe coding vs senior developers: what survives production

Anyone can prompt an app into existence now. The demo works. Then come real users, real data and a real attacker — and the difference between vibes and engineering shows.

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RAG, embeddings and vector search, explained simply — Roundly Consulting

AI

RAG, embeddings and vector search, explained simply

How does an AI assistant know your contracts, manuals and internal rules? Not by retraining — by RAG. Here is the whole mechanism, without the math.

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AI automation in companies: invoices, email and beyond — Roundly Consulting

Automation

AI automation in companies: invoices, email and beyond

Invoices that book themselves, emails answered in minutes, documents that file themselves — what AI automation realistically handles today, and where to start.

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Grafana with Prometheus for Traefik in minikube — Roundly Consulting

Kubernetes

Grafana with Prometheus for Traefik in minikube

How to scrape Traefik ingress metrics with Prometheus and visualize them in Grafana inside a local minikube cluster — every manifest included.

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Laravel application synchronization with Redis — Roundly Consulting

Laravel

Laravel application synchronization with Redis

How to connect two Laravel applications through a shared Redis instance and synchronize data between them with queued jobs — with full configuration.

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