--- title: "Blog — notes on AI, automation and engineering | Roundly" description: "Articles on AI automation, agents, RAG and hands-on engineering — practical, specific and written from real projects, not hype." url: https://roundly-consulting.com/blog language: en --- # Blog Practical notes on AI, automation and software engineering — what we build, how it works and what we learned along the way. ![Roundly for Laravel: a package registry for AI agents — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/laravel-package-registry-for-ai-coding-agents.webp) Open source· 4 October 2026 ## [Roundly for Laravel: a package registry for AI agents](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/laravel-package-registry-for-ai-coding-agents.md) 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. Read article ![We open-sourced 50+ Laravel packages — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/we-open-sourced-50-laravel-packages.webp) Open source· 3 October 2026 ## [We open-sourced 50+ Laravel packages](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/we-open-sourced-50-laravel-packages.md) 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. Read article ![Open source in the age of agentic coding — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/open-source-in-the-age-of-agentic-coding.webp) Open source· 28 June 2026 ## [Open source in the age of agentic coding](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/open-source-in-the-age-of-agentic-coding.md) 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. Read article ![AI is not just chat: background agents and MCP — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/ai-beyond-chat-background-agents-mcp.webp) AI· 21 May 2026 ## [AI is not just chat: background agents and MCP](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/ai-beyond-chat-background-agents-mcp.md) 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. Read article ![How AI is changing industries and where the hours go — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/how-ai-is-changing-industries-productivity.webp) AI· 17 February 2026 ## [How AI is changing industries and where the hours go](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/how-ai-is-changing-industries-productivity.md) 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. Read article ![Vibe coding vs senior developers: what survives production — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/vibe-coding-vs-senior-developers.webp) Engineering· 4 December 2025 ## [Vibe coding vs senior developers: what survives production](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/vibe-coding-vs-senior-developers.md) 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. Read article ![RAG, embeddings and vector search, explained simply — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/what-is-rag-embeddings-vector-search.webp) AI· 23 September 2025 ## [RAG, embeddings and vector search, explained simply](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/what-is-rag-embeddings-vector-search.md) 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. Read article ![AI automation in companies: invoices, email and beyond — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/ai-automation-in-companies-invoices-emails.webp) Automation· 8 July 2025 ## [AI automation in companies: invoices, email and beyond](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/ai-automation-in-companies-invoices-emails.md) Invoices that book themselves, emails answered in minutes, documents that file themselves — what AI automation realistically handles today, and where to start. Read article ![Grafana with Prometheus for Traefik in minikube — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/grafana-with-prometheus-for-traefik-in-minikube.webp) Kubernetes· 15 June 2023 ## [Grafana with Prometheus for Traefik in minikube](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/grafana-with-prometheus-for-traefik-in-minikube.md) How to scrape Traefik ingress metrics with Prometheus and visualize them in Grafana inside a local minikube cluster — every manifest included. Read article ![Laravel application synchronization with Redis — Roundly Consulting](https://roundly-consulting.com/images/blog/laravel-application-synchronization-with-redis.webp) Laravel· 6 June 2023 ## [Laravel application synchronization with Redis](https://roundly-consulting.com/blog/laravel-application-synchronization-with-redis.md) 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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