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PHPUnit: "here's 500 progress dots for your AI agent"
Claude Code: "thanks, that'll be 250 tokens"
You: paying for it
Wrote up the flags that cut 89% of CLI noise for PHPUnit, PHPStan, Psalm, phpcs, Rector & more.
Alies Lapatsin
@alies_dev
Staff Engineer. Systems thinker. Code cleaner. Writing about AI agents, PHP tooling, and developer experience.
- Made a small Rust CLI: todo-by. Comments with a deadline become CI failures once the deadline passes // todo-by 2026-07-09 remove the feature flag Works on any file type because it reads text, not grammar. Honors .gitignore. One binary, no runtime.
- Laravel 11 upgrade slashed our app boot time by 12%! How we measured: - 📊 Time diff between \Illuminate\Routing\Events\Routing event and \LARAVEL_START const - 📈 Reporting to New Relic Kudos to @laravelphp for the amazing optimization! #Laravel11 #PerformanceMatters
- Setting up a new #Laravel project? Check out my latest article on essential first-hour setup steps: alies.dev/articles/larav… What's your go-to initial configuration? Share your tips! (for the second hour of the project)
- #PHP tip: pretty rare used sscanf function can drastically simplify some of your regex details: alies.dev/articles/sscan…
