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  • Give AI Agents Long-Term Memory: LLM Wiki Pattern in Symfony

    Give AI Agents Long-Term Memory: LLM Wiki Pattern in Symfony

    To cure this chronic amnesia without setting up heavy RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, complex MCP servers, or relying on proprietary cloud chat histories, there’s a simple, universal, and incredibly effective approach: pairing a global AGENTS.md setup with the LLM Wiki pattern. This concept was popularized by Andrej Karpathy, former Director of AI at Tesla and…

  • The Week in Charts (8/18/26)

    The Week in Charts (8/18/26)

    View the video of this post here. This week’s post is sponsored by YCharts. During uncertain markets, clients start questioning the benefits of staying invested. With YCharts, you can easily convey to clients why long-term investing is the best strategy. YCharts’ Top 10 Visuals offers ready-to-use charts that make these exact conversations easier. The deck visualizes…

  • The Week in Charts (9/5/26)

    The Week in Charts (9/5/26)

    View the video of this post here. Managing your wealth involves much more than choosing investments. Creative Planning brings financial planning, investment management, tax strategy, estate planning and insurance together under one roof, with a dedicated team focused on your unique goals. At Creative Planning, we’re proud to help clients experience a richer way to wealth…

  • How To Prioritize Messages When Building Asynchronous Applications With Symfony Messenger

    How To Prioritize Messages When Building Asynchronous Applications With Symfony Messenger

    Going asynchronous sounds like a dream: decoupled processes, faster response times, and no more users staring at spinning wheels. But pretty quickly, reality hits — some messages take forever, others are way too important to be delayed, and suddenly you’re drowning in a swamp of priorities. Whether you’re firing off password reset emails or triggering…

  • The SensioLabs Fall 2026 Roadmap: Where to Catch Us This Autumn!

    The SensioLabs Fall 2026 Roadmap: Where to Catch Us This Autumn!

    As the creator of the framework and active members of the ecosystem, we’ll be there to support these community initiatives, deliver technical talks, and connect with you. We can’t wait to meet you at our experts’ presentations (which focus mainly on AI and security this year), at our booths over a cup of coffee ☕,…

  • The Week in Charts (8/25/26)

    The Week in Charts (8/25/26)

    View the video of this post here. Enjoying this newsletter? Don’t miss the next one. Subscribe to The Week in Charts Here to get it directly in your inbox. The most important charts and themes in markets and investing… 1) Moving One Step Closer to a Debt Crisis The US National Debt is now $40 trillion.…

  • Symfony and AI: the video is now available

    Symfony and AI: the video is now available

    Artificial intelligence is all over the news. Last month, France hosted the AI Action Summit, where leaders from around the world met to discuss the challenges of the technology. SensioLabs didn’t wait long to ask about how to apply artificial intelligence in Symfony development projects. Did you know that it is possible to integrate AI…

  • This Is Awesome: A TYPO3 DevDays Story

    Maps gave me two routes to the conference venue: alongside the highway, or through “the park.” Naturally, I picked the park (which turned out to be an honest-to-goodness forest). There I was, laptop bag over my shoulder, dress shoes and all, picking my way past a flooded stretch of trail that someone had bridged with…

  • PHP 8.6 Duration: a small class that fixes a recurring design mistake

    PHP 8.6 Duration: a small class that fixes a recurring design mistake

    The accepted PHP RFC for a new Duration class is one of those changes that looks modest at first glance. It does not introduce a new programming paradigm, and it will probably not make release-note headlines like property hooks or fibers did. But in day-to-day backend work, it addresses a problem we see regularly in…

  • The State of the Markets (August 2026)

    The State of the Markets (August 2026)

    View the video of this post here. The State of the Markets in 10 Charts… 1) More Milestones, More All-Time Highs The S&P 500 crossed above 7,700 this week for the first time, its 8th 100-point milestone of the year. A year ago it was at 6,300. 5 years ago it was at 4,400. 10 years…

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