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A customer support AI agent built in stages: shadow mode first, internal notes second, auto-send only after the data earns it. A walkthrough of the architecture, the knowledge base design, and the lessons that held up.
What does a great workplace look like in terms of collaboration? How are communication and process affected by working remotely? Can remote teams really function
Would you trust Ferris Bueller to work on your project? Probably not. But how could he earn your trust? When joining a new project, there
Every year, team madewithlove goes on a secret mission. We spend a week together in a cool location during our company retreat. This year was
Still scared to ship to production on Friday afternoon? Even after reading our previous post on maturing your release process? Here’s some practical advice
Ugh… I can’t believe it! How did he find that? This is my goal when I test for bugs. I want to find the
PHP7.4 introduced this cool new feature called “typed properties” which add the existing PHP type system to class properties. This means that you can
What if I told you Morpheus never said “What if I told you?” I know you saw that meme a thousand times but have you
Why Gatsby? One of the greatest aspects of modern web development is how modular and composable everything has become. Building an application these days has
It’s Friday afternoon. Do you deploy to production? A lot of teams are afraid to push their code to production before the weekend because
It’s safe to say that programming, and everything around it, evolved tremendously since the Internet’s beginnings. If you’ve ever created a Frontpage
Because we are constantly learning, madewithlove hosts CTO dinners as a way of facilitating conversations between CTOs of Belgium. The role of a CTO is
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy In a continued push for asynchronous work, we attempted to tackle one of the last major
If you’ve ever worked with Redux – in the context of a React application or not – you may have heard numerous times that it was
If you try researching “Hexagonal Architecture” these days, you will find a lot of articles and videos that can feel overwhelming because they often include
Integrating Elasticsearch with Laravel enhances search capabilities beyond simple LIKE matches. This guide covers Elasticsearch basics, setting up a local environment with Docker, creating a demo application, and implementing Elasticsearch integration using observers and repositories.
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