Build a Laravel Package for Reusable AI Features Across Projects
Three apps is when the copy-paste strategy breaks down. Not because the Anthropic client setup is complicated — it isn't — but because the three copies drift. App A's client retries on 529 errors; app B's doesn't. App C still has a model name from three months ago when you were testing. By the time you need to upgrade the SDK, you're hunting through three codebases and hoping you got them all.