Laravel Worldwide Meetup - Christoph Rumpel - Vibes vs. Agents: A World Cup Betting Side Project Story

This month we are joined by Laravel Dev Rel Engineer Christoph Rumpel. Christoph will take us on a journey through building a recent side project and a some of the lessons he learned along the way.

We all have that side project we've meant to build for years. I finally built mine. The first half by hand, every line myself. Then I stopped and asked whether writing code was still worth my time, handed the keyboard to the agents, and finished it a completely different way. This talk is about building a real side project in this new era. Vibe coding versus agentic coding, the tools that actually helped, and what it takes to stay the owner of something you didn't write yourself. With a live demo, real numbers, and an honest look at what it felt like to stop writing the code myself.