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Can AI solve the PHP talent shortage — or does it introduce new challenges? In this clip from a recent Zend webinar, “The 2026 State of PHP,” PHP experts Matthew Weier O’Phinney and Adam Culp explore how AI web development is changing the way teams modernize applications, and why AI alone isn’t the answer. AI is already accelerating development workflows, helping teams generate code, document processes, and move faster through modernization projects. But when it comes to replacing skilled engineers, the reality is more nuanced.

Stop wasting money on AI API tokens in your local, test, and CI environments. In this demo, I show how to record real LLM responses and replay them for free using proxymock and stop surprise bills.

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Is your organization actually driving value with AI, or just scratching the surface? @SPGlobalMarketIntelligence's Saugata Saha joins to share the 4-part journey to real AI maturity. He warns that without a deliberate action plan to completely transform day-to-day employee workflows, any productivity gains will just be "squishy" metrics that fail to impact the bottom line. Head over to your favorite listening platform to catch the full episode!

Most AI agents are generalists that struggle with the nuances of streaming data and Kafka infrastructure, often leading you down a rabbit hole with many tokens spent. In this session, live from Current London, we’ll show you how to close the context gap with Skills for Kafka: structured files that are playbooks and level-ups for agents to handle complex multi-step tasks like reviewing schema changes, critiquing DLQ policies and auditing topics for best practice. We will walk through how these skills work, demonstrate the different ways to use them (including with MCP servers) in Cursor and Claude.