# Notes from the trenches.

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- Description: Notes on Laravel internals, AI engineering with Anthropic Claude and MCP, RAG pipelines, Shopify Plus, DevOps, and software architecture.

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Laravel internals, AI engineering with Claude + MCP, RAG pipelines, Shopify Plus, DevOps. Production lessons from shipped work — every post earns its slot. Featured = hand-picked or most recent.

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- [01 Why your RAG implementation is failing in production AI](https://ansezz.com/blog/why-your-rag-is-failing/)
- [02 Laravel Octane for high-traffic PHP apps Laravel](https://ansezz.com/blog/laravel-octane-high-traffic/)
- [03 Claude MCP: connecting my dev tools to LLMs AI](https://ansezz.com/blog/claude-mcp-dev-tools/)
- [04 Ditch expensive cloud providers for self-hosted SaaS DevOps](https://ansezz.com/blog/coolify-self-hosted-saas/)

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  [NEW ▸ Featured post Migrate Storefront MCP carts to UCP Cart MCP Storefront MCP get_cart and update_cart on /api/mcp are deprecated. Move agents to UCP Cart MCP at /api/ucp/mcp with create, get, update, and cancel. Shopify Sep 25, 2026 · 7 min read Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/migrate-storefront-mcp-cart-to-ucp/)        03

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- [Architecture Sep 20, 2026 MCP first is the new mobile first Mobile first made every screen work on a phone. MCP first makes every product capability work for an AI agent: tools, skills, and permissions before the human UI. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-first-is-the-new-mobile-first/)
- [Laravel Sep 18, 2026 MCP auth and audit logging in a Laravel SaaS An MCP server on Laravel is only as safe as its tenancy boundary. Scoped tool auth, request-bound actor context, and an audit log you can actually read at 3am. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-auth-audit-logging-laravel/)
- [AI Aug 9, 2026 Trust is not a QA strategy: test AI code too AI code is 95% syntactically clean and fails security tests 45% of the time. Half of agentic PRs ship no tests. The verification pipeline I run instead. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/testing-ai-generated-code/)
- [Shopify Aug 7, 2026 Building secure agentic commerce on Shopify in 2026 How agentic commerce on Shopify stays safe: UCP negotiation, an MCP governance layer, scoped credentials, signed requests, and human approval at checkout. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/secure-agentic-commerce-shopify/)
- [Architecture Aug 5, 2026 MCP vs A2A vs ACP: the agent protocol stack MCP connects agents to tools, A2A connects agents to each other, and ACP has folded into A2A. How the two-layer agent protocol stack fits together in 2026. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-vs-a2a-vs-acp/)
- [Laravel Nov 12, 2026 Your Laravel MCP server now checks Origin. APP_URL just became a security setting. Laravel MCP 1.2.0 returns 403 to a browser request whose Origin is not your APP_URL. That makes APP_URL part of your MCP security, and the allow list is a config key that is not in the config file. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/laravel-mcp-origin-validation/)
- [DevOps Nov 10, 2026 Write is not delete: Coolify just changed your API and MCP contract Coolify 4.6 and 4.7 changed the contract: a write token can no longer delete, and a newer git push cancels the older queued webhook deploy by default. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/coolify-write-is-not-delete/)
- [AI Oct 28, 2026 Meta Muse for Solo Founders: The Guard Outside the Agent Matters More Than the Agent Meta's personal agent takes action on its own cloud computer and keeps working after you close the app. Sentinel sits outside the model. Price as of 28 October 2026. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-solo-founders/)
- [AI Oct 28, 2026 OpenAI Dots for Solo Founders: An Always-On Agent in Slack and Teams, on Your Rules One always-on ChatGPT agent keeps working on its own cloud computer after you close the laptop. Custom Rules, Slack and Teams, and the Pro price as of 28 October 2026. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/openai-dots-solo-founders/)

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## Key links

- [RSS feed](https://ansezz.com/rss.xml)
- [Browse series](https://ansezz.com/blog/series/)
- [01 Why your RAG implementation is failing in production AI](https://ansezz.com/blog/why-your-rag-is-failing/)
- [02 Laravel Octane for high-traffic PHP apps Laravel](https://ansezz.com/blog/laravel-octane-high-traffic/)
- [03 Claude MCP: connecting my dev tools to LLMs AI](https://ansezz.com/blog/claude-mcp-dev-tools/)
- [04 Ditch expensive cloud providers for self-hosted SaaS DevOps](https://ansezz.com/blog/coolify-self-hosted-saas/)
- [All · 97](https://ansezz.com/blog/)
- [Laravel · 11](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/laravel/)
- [AI · 28](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/ai/)
- [Shopify · 10](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/shopify/)
- [DevOps · 18](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/devops/)
- [Architecture · 25](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/architecture/)
- [Career · 5](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/career/)
- [NEW ▸ Featured post Migrate Storefront MCP carts to UCP Cart MCP Storefront MCP get_cart and update_cart on /api/mcp are deprecated. Move agents to UCP Cart MCP at /api/ucp/mcp with create, get, update, and cancel. Shopify Sep 25, 2026 · 7 min read Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/migrate-storefront-mcp-cart-to-ucp/)
- [Architecture Sep 20, 2026 MCP first is the new mobile first Mobile first made every screen work on a phone. MCP first makes every product capability work for an AI agent: tools, skills, and permissions before the human UI. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-first-is-the-new-mobile-first/)
- [Laravel Sep 18, 2026 MCP auth and audit logging in a Laravel SaaS An MCP server on Laravel is only as safe as its tenancy boundary. Scoped tool auth, request-bound actor context, and an audit log you can actually read at 3am. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-auth-audit-logging-laravel/)
- [AI Aug 9, 2026 Trust is not a QA strategy: test AI code too AI code is 95% syntactically clean and fails security tests 45% of the time. Half of agentic PRs ship no tests. The verification pipeline I run instead. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/testing-ai-generated-code/)
- [Shopify Aug 7, 2026 Building secure agentic commerce on Shopify in 2026 How agentic commerce on Shopify stays safe: UCP negotiation, an MCP governance layer, scoped credentials, signed requests, and human approval at checkout. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/secure-agentic-commerce-shopify/)
- [Architecture Aug 5, 2026 MCP vs A2A vs ACP: the agent protocol stack MCP connects agents to tools, A2A connects agents to each other, and ACP has folded into A2A. How the two-layer agent protocol stack fits together in 2026. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-vs-a2a-vs-acp/)
- [Laravel Nov 12, 2026 Your Laravel MCP server now checks Origin. APP_URL just became a security setting. Laravel MCP 1.2.0 returns 403 to a browser request whose Origin is not your APP_URL. That makes APP_URL part of your MCP security, and the allow list is a config key that is not in the config file. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/laravel-mcp-origin-validation/)
- [DevOps Nov 10, 2026 Write is not delete: Coolify just changed your API and MCP contract Coolify 4.6 and 4.7 changed the contract: a write token can no longer delete, and a newer git push cancels the older queued webhook deploy by default. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/coolify-write-is-not-delete/)
- [AI Oct 28, 2026 Meta Muse for Solo Founders: The Guard Outside the Agent Matters More Than the Agent Meta's personal agent takes action on its own cloud computer and keeps working after you close the app. Sentinel sits outside the model. Price as of 28 October 2026. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-solo-founders/)
- [AI Oct 28, 2026 OpenAI Dots for Solo Founders: An Always-On Agent in Slack and Teams, on Your Rules One always-on ChatGPT agent keeps working on its own cloud computer after you close the laptop. Custom Rules, Slack and Teams, and the Pro price as of 28 October 2026. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/openai-dots-solo-founders/)
- [#laravel · 43](https://ansezz.com/blog/tag/laravel/)
- [#ai · 40](https://ansezz.com/blog/tag/ai/)
- [#agentic-ai · 33](https://ansezz.com/blog/tag/agentic-ai/)
- [#devops · 28](https://ansezz.com/blog/tag/devops/)
- [#architecture · 25](https://ansezz.com/blog/tag/architecture/)
- [#shopify · 24](https://ansezz.com/blog/tag/shopify/)
- [#mcp · 23](https://ansezz.com/blog/tag/mcp/)