Luis Güette

An irregular journal of software, systems, and the life pushed up against them — by a builder who prefers the long sentence to the dashboard.

I am a software engineer who builds at the seam where language models meet ordinary web software — the place where a well-placed prompt still has to pass through a database, a cache, and someone’s attention. Electrical Engineer by training, I have spent the last decade shipping products inside startups and agencies, and the last few years writing about what the shipping cost.

I am working independently at the moment, which means the calendar is mine: I am building Resumeskit and a handful of other personal projects, shipping the ideas I kept postponing. Before this I shipped backend pipelines at Centus and led projects at Kirschbaum, mentoring developers across Laravel-based products. Outside the editor I am an open-water swimmer and a work-in-progress triathlete. I write here — weekly-ish — because the work is clearer once it is on a page. This site is the page.

Selected Projects

YearApril 2026 – Present

RoleEngineer & designer

StackLaravel 13, PHP 8.4, Inertia v3, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, laravel/ai, OpenRouter, Pest 4

Active

ResumesKit — a living record, tailored on demand

A resume platform for non-technical job seekers. Import an existing CV once, keep it alive through a conversational agent, and generate tailored — never fabricated — versions for specific postings. Built on a hybrid data model where structured columns carry what needs querying and Markdown carries what AI needs to read. In active development; not yet in production.

YearMarch 2026 – Present

RoleAuthor & maintainer

StackTypeScript, oclif, Browserbase, Perplexity, Supadata

Active

Zurf — a web for agents, not for humans

A CLI toolkit that gives AI agents a single, legible interface to the web — search, browse, ask, transcribe. Built because the tools humans use to read the internet are the wrong shape for something that reads a hundred pages in a minute.

YearSeptember 2025 – Present

RoleAuthor & maintainer

StackPHP 8.4, Laravel 12

Active

NodeGraph — a small state machine for agentic Laravel

An open-source PHP package for running processes as directed graphs of states. Nodes execute domain logic, threads persist progress, and checkpoints keep an auditable timeline — the runtime I wanted every time I tried to build an agent inside a Laravel app.

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II.

From the Writing

01.ReflectionsIs Claude Making You Dumber?Stop using Claude as a vending machine.24 April 2026
02.TechnicalShipping Code AFK: A Docker Sandbox and Ralph Loop for Laravel and Claude CodeA step-by-step guide to running Claude Code unattended on a Laravel project — building the sandbox image, wiring up a self-driving loop, and learning what breaks the hard way.20 April 2026
03.ReflectionsStop Saying "Looks Good" to Plans You Can't ReadLearn 16 essential Laravel terms to understand AI-generated development plans instead of blindly approving them.06 April 2026
04.ReflectionsStop and Think: Solve It Once, Use It ForeverThe real problem isn't your prompt—it's how you think about problems. Learn to decompose, connect, and systematize.28 March 2026
05.TechnicalWhy Laravel? The Framework Built for AILaravel handles authentication, databases, and more out of the box—plus it's the only framework with AI tooling engineered into its core.21 March 2026

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III.

Now — A Letter from the Desk

Buenos Aires, mid-April.

This autumn — the southern one — I am working independently, and the days belong to me. Resumeskit is the product I’m shipping into; the writing is the thing I’m publishing from; the rest of the time goes to the personal projects I kept postponing when the calendar was someone else’s.

I am training for a half-iron, slowly, between pool sessions and open-water swims. The bedside stack is taller than usual — a handful of books I’ve been meaning to sit with for a while; a proper shelf will land on this site soon. If you are reading this because we are mid-conversation: thank you — the site exists, mostly, for you.

— Luis