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Coming up · Wednesday 13 January 2027 · 78 days to go

How-to videos that make themselves: AI-planned, Playwright-recorded demos of your Laravel app

It's about laravel-video-demos, an open source package I'm building. The short version:

1. You describe a flow in a sentence.
2. An AI model (Claude by default, or OpenAI, Gemini or a local model) reads your routes and code and writes a step-by-step plan.
3. Playwright records the plan in a real browser with a cursor, captions and title cards.
4. ffmpeg encodes desktop, tablet and mobile MP4s from one plan.
5. Plans are saved, so one command re-records every video after a redesign at no AI cost.

I'll run it live and dig into the harder parts: self-repairing plans when a step fails, keeping AI spend under a set limit, and redacting secrets before any code reaches the model. It's a package deep dive with plenty of general PHP and tooling in it, not a Laravel-only talk.