Laravel Greece - Athens September 2026

Athens, let's talk about the boring thing that saves you.

In the age of AI-assisted coding, shipping fast is easy. Shipping fast and safe is the hard part. Everyone has a story about the Friday deploy that looked fine in the diff and very much wasn't in production.

This September, Elvis Poenaru makes the case for tests as the thing that lets you refactor without fear, ship with confidence, and keep a codebase reliable as it grows. We're going from zero to your first test tomorrow morning, through the practices that actually matter, all the way to growing your coverage from nothing to something solid. Along the way, a custom AI Skill built to write Laravel tests that follow a real set of team conventions, so the habit sticks instead of dying after week two.