Jacob Bennett
Web developer and podcaster in the Laravel community, covering Laravel releases, Laracon, Laravel Cloud and the Laravel AI SDK. Co-hosts the Laravel News Podcas...
“It's just too dangerous the way that we're living right now, which is just blind installs. And trying to review it yourself is impractical. Handing it off to a coding agent, very practical, and only looking at the diffs.”
Laravel News Podcast · Laravel Ecosystem · September 2026
Bennett was walking through Laravel Vet, a beta Composer tool inspired by Rust's cargo-vet. It hands new dependency code to the coding agent already on your machine for a pass or fail, and remembers which package versions you've trusted.
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Honestly, I was reading the next item because I'm so interested in it, actually. There's a lot of really cool stuff on this next one. But I think I've heard of it for
me. I've heard
of the clamp function, which I think is actually, it sounds so little. This sounds so like it doesn't matter, but it just solves these little paper cut issues, right? So, as silly as that sounds, I'm excited about that. A time duration class actually seems very interesting to me, not because of the nanosecond precision, but just because I've needed this in some scheduling sort of contexts. And so, being able to have those available as first-class classes is going to be pretty nice. So, yeah, I think that's pretty interesting. Yep. It'll be interesting to see too, how these, you know, how libraries that I don't know, like LiveWire, right? You have this like this API, this polling API. Will LiveWire eventually adopt that, right? Like, not until it requires 8.6, but eventually some of these things that are sort of just features that are underneath in the actual PHP library itself will eventually get adopted into some of these other libraries. So, that'll be cool. Yeah. All right. We're going to talk about…
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