SMRTR ProgrammingJul 8, 2026DZone

AI Is Making PHP Cool Again

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Opinionated frameworks like Laravel and Rails — long mocked as boring and rigid — turn out to be exactly what AI coding agents need to perform well. Because agents are pattern matchers trained on millions of codebases, consistent conventions mean less guessing and more idiomatic output. Flexible, bespoke stacks force agents to rebuild context every time, producing inconsistent results. Boring is now a competitive advantage.

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