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Staging-server bottlenecks often slow releases, compress QA into the final days of a sprint, and leave stakeholders reviewing work too late to give meaningful feedback. In this DrupalCon North America 2026 session, Jasmyne Epps of Digital Services Georgia and James Sansbury of Tugboat explain how the State of Georgia redesigned QA and UAT for GovHub by moving testing and stakeholder review directly into pull requests. The result is a workflow that helps teams catch issues earlier, collaborate continuously, and scale delivery across more than 80 state agency websites.

09 Mar 2026 3:31pm GMT

Dreaming about Claude Code

I lost sleep last night, dreaming about Claude Code. The night before, I was working too late and too hard on a coding problem, and I ended up dreaming about it and circling the solution. I was ruminating on how Claude Code fits into my development workflow. In my dream, I kept circling back to the question of how to code Drupal using AI.

I want to emphasize that I had a dream, not a nightmare. The dream was triggered by spending an entire day clauding at Symfony, more generally using Claude Code to improve my understanding of Symfony and how it is used in Drupal.

Improving my understanding of Symfony within Drupal

First and foremost, I see AI as a powerful tool, not a replacement for developers. AI is a disruptor affecting both junior and senior developers, requiring them to learn to use AI to develop and maintain software applications. An AI tidal wave is underway, and we need to get ahead of it rather than ignore it.

My long-term goal is to bring AI into my Drupal development workflow, yet I like circling around big challenges and seeking a learning task that is somewhat Drupal-adjacent. There are two Symfony-related issues/tasks on Drupal.org that I want to understand and maybe help resolve.

The first one is really simple. The latest version of Drupal CMS and, in turn, the AI Agents module can't generate content types. i.e., "create an Event content type" because the AI agent throws a passing generic $value parameter triggers an error. This is a minor bug, but I honestly don't understand Drupal's integration with Symfony's validation component well enough to contribute a patch.

A much larger second discussion I have been following for several years is the addition of integration...Read More

09 Mar 2026 2:32pm GMT

The weekend of 28th February to the 1st March saw the second DrupalCamp England event with around 100 people attending the University of Salford, not far from Manchester, for the two day event.

I had submitted a talk and the camp organisers had accepted it and also decided to make me a featured speaker, which was an incredible honour. As such I was part of the communications being sent out in the weeks before the event.

Since this is more or less a local event for me I decided to travel in on both days rather than get a hotel or anything. The rain and wind of the previous week had abated and the Saturday morning saw some of the warmest (and driest) weather we had seen in the north west for a few months.

Saturday

The keynote on Saturday morning was The Augmented Future: Winning with AI with Dr. Phininder Balaghan, founder of Traversally. This was an look through the current state of AI, which Dr. Balaghan said changes every time he gives the talk.

Most companies these days have adopted an agile methodology, which has taken about 20 years to become widespread. Since the introduction of LLM AI systems a few years ago we have seen massive adoption across all industries.

Dr. Balaghan joked that we have reached the age of AI-gile, the new agile methodology.

At the moment we are using a collection of LLM agents that work together in a so-called "agentic" system to provide a coherent service. The next true advancement in AI systems will be thinking AI systems that are able to properly think about the input and respond. I think we are quite a long way from that yet and no amount of processing power or RAM is going to solve the problem that LLMs are just statistical word engines.

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08 Mar 2026 6:57pm GMT

This week, Symfony 6.4.35, 7.4.7, and 8.0.7 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we introduced featured listings for Symfony job postings. Lastly, we published AI skills for Symfony UX. Symfony development highlights This week, 103 pull requests…

08 Mar 2026 8:16am GMT

Symfony 8.0.7 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…

06 Mar 2026 5:12pm GMT

Symfony 7.4.7 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…

06 Mar 2026 4:45pm GMT