AI in Web Development Series

AI in a working codebase

Practical guides to using AI in web development: prompts that hold up in production, and generated code you can still review and maintain.

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2 parts in this series.

Prompt engineering best practices: writing effective AI instructions

24 October 2025 13 min read Artificial Intelligence · Part 1

How I write prompts that give reliable output on Laravel, Shopify and WordPress work: roles, few-shot examples, output formats and prompts fit for production.

Technical Deep Dive

AI code generation: from prototype to production-ready code

31 October 2025 9 min read Artificial Intelligence · Part 2

Using AI to generate Laravel, Shopify and WordPress code, from scaffolding to boilerplate, and the checks that keep what it writes fit for production.

Technical Deep Dive

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