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use App\Ai\Agents\SalesCoach;

$response = SalesCoach::make()->prompt('Please analyze this sales transcript...');

return (string) $response;

use Laravel\Ai\Image;

$image = Image::of('A donut on a kitchen counter')->generate();

$rawContent = (string) $image;

use Laravel\Ai\Audio;

$audio = Audio::of('I love coding in Laravel.')->generate();

$rawContent = (string) $audio;

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

$embeddings = Str::of('Napa Valley wines are the best.')->toEmbeddings();

$documents = DB::table('documents')
    ->whereVectorSimilarTo('embedding', 'the best wineries in Napa Valley')
    ->limit(10)
    ->get();

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Comment;
use App\Models\Post;
use Illuminate\Routing\Attributes\Controllers\Authorize;
use Illuminate\Routing\Attributes\Controllers\Middleware;

#[Middleware('auth')]
class CommentController
{
    #[Middleware('subscribed')]
    #[Authorize('create', [Comment::class, 'post'])]
    public function store(Post $post)
    {
        // ...
    }
}

use Illuminate\Queue\Attributes\Tries;
use Illuminate\Queue\Attributes\Backoff;
use Illuminate\Queue\Attributes\Timeout;
use Illuminate\Queue\Attributes\FailOnTimeout;

#[Tries(3)]
#[Backoff(60)]
#[Timeout(120)]
#[FailOnTimeout]
class ProcessPodcast implements ShouldQueue
{
    // ...
}

use App\Jobs\ProcessPodcast;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue;

Queue::route(ProcessPodcast::class, connection: 'redis', queue: 'podcasts');

// Extend the TTL by 3600 seconds without changing the current value
Cache::touch('expensive-computation', 3600);

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\PreventRequestForgery;

// Excluding the middleware in tests
->withoutMiddleware([PreventRequestForgery::class]);

// config/cache.php
'serializable_classes' => [
    App\Data\CachedDashboardStats::class,
    App\Support\CachedPricingSnapshot::class,
],

composer require laravel/boost:^2.0 --dev